The superfluous is very necessary.
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.
I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.
It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.