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On Simplicity

     
    
       
   The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, 
   without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness --- one 
   who loves life, and understands the use of it;  obliging alike 
   at all hours;  above all, of a golden temper, and steadfast as 
   an anchor.  For such a one we gladly exchange the greatest 
   genius, the most brilliant wit, the profoundest thinker.    
       
                                                           Lessing



   Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound 
   thought.    
                                                          Hazlitt



   In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme 
   excellence is simplicity.    
       
                                                        Longfellow



   Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.  The bad are 
   the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the 
   least.    
       
                                                      H. Martineau



   The greatest truths are the simplest;  and so are the greatest 
   men.    
                                                              Hare



   There is a majesty in simplicity which is far above the 
   quaintness of wit.    
                                                           Pope



   Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but 
   simplicity and straightforwardness are.  Write much as you 
   speak; speak as you think.  If with your inferiors, speak no 
   coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.  Be what 
   you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.

                                                          Alford  
 


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