A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.
A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
An excess of modesty is in fact an excess of pride, and more hurtful to the individual, and less advantageous to society, than the grossest and most unblushing vanity.
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may
An indigestion is an excellent common-place for two people that never met before.
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight, and converts every object into a little universe in itself.
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