Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?
Marguerite Gardiner
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- Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
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- We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.