Comparison

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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home
Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?
See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse
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