That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
Anne Louise Germaine De Stael
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
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