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It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence.

All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.