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PASCAL'S THOUGHTS

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You are ungraceful: "Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss. "With reverence be it spoken . . ." The only thing bad is their excuse.


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"To extinguish the torch of sedition;" too luxuriant. "The restlessness of his genius;" two superfluous grand words.