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As the air and manner of a gentleman can be acquired only by living habitually in the best society, so grace in composition must be attained by an habitual acquaintance with classical writers. - [Style] D'Alembert tells us that Voltaire had always lying on his table the "Petit Careme" of Massillon and the "Tragedies" of Racine; the former to fix his taste in prose composition, and the latter in poetry. - [Style] Every man has some peculiar train of thought which he falls back upon when he is alone. This, to a great degree, moulds the man. - [Thought] Religion consists not so much in joyous feelings as in a constant exercise of devotedness to God. - [Religion] That the principle of self-love (or, in other words, the desire of happiness) is neither an object of approbation nor of blame, is sufficiently obvious. It is inseparable from the nature of man as a rational and a sensitive being. - [Self-love] There are very few original thinkers in the world, or ever have been; the greatest part of those who are called philosophers, have adopted the opinions of some who went before them. - [Thinkers : Thought]
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