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I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Mar y Wortley Montagu
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
Douglas Jerrold
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