It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the … - Augustus Hare

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Imagine yourself acclaimed, a decorated national hero, an idol to millions of desperate people, then within six months, condemned to death by hanging.

Augustus Hare

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

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Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

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