Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

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Where it is duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

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Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

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They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

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They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.

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