Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation but they have no power of abstraction, no general standard of taste, or scale of opinion. They see their objects always near, and never in the horizon. Hence arises that egotism which has been remarked as the characteristic of self-taught men.William Hazlitt
The worst old age is that of the mind.
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His worst is better than any other person's best.
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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Zeal will do more than knowledge.
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He stood bewildered, not appalled, on that dark shore which separates the ancient and the modern world. . . . He is power, passion, self-will personified.
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