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It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all
It is never so difficult to speak as when we are ashamed of our silence
Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think
When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff,
He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff.
He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff.
Retaliation
In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill,
For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still;
While words of learned length and thundering sound
Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around;
And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew
That one small head could carry all he knew.
For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still;
While words of learned length and thundering sound
Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around;
And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew
That one small head could carry all he knew.
The Deserted Village
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.
Vicar of Wakefield
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