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No One For A Moment Can Pretend That Printing Is So Great A Discovery As Writing, Or Algebra As A Language.

As We Retain But A Faint Remembrance Of Our Felicity, It Is But Fair That The Smartest Stroke Of Sorrow Should, If Bitter, At Least Be Brief.

There Are Few Faces That Can Afford To Smile: A Smile Is Sometimes Bewitching, In General Vapid, Often A Contortion.

Were It Not For Music, We Might In These Days Say, The Beautiful Is Dead.

A Great City, Whose Image Dwells In The Memory Of Man, Is The Type Of Some Great Idea. Rome Represents Conquest; Faith Hovers Over The Towers Of Jerusalem; And Athens Embodies The Pre-eminent Quality Of The Antique World, Art.