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Topic |
| Ability | Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. |
| Ambition | Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. |
| Credit | Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. |
| Humor | That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. |
| Humor | The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. |
| Mystery | Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads. |
| Nonsense | A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch. |
| Prophecy | Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first. |
| Ruin | The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, in time a Vergil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra. |
| Scotland | In short, he and the Scotch have no way of redeeming the credit of their understandings, but by avowing that they have been consummate villains. Stavano bene; per star meglio, stanno qui. |
| Sensibility | I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I. |
| Tragedy | The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. |
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