In Ireland, there are the same fossils, the same shells and the same sea bodies, as appear in … - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

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So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

In Ireland, there are the same fossils, the same shells and the same sea bodies, as appear in America, and some of them are found in no other part of Europe.

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Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

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He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.

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Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.

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Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality. . . These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself.

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Style is the essence of man

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