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"Good nature and good sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive divine."
Pope's _Essay on Criticism_, pp. 524, 525.
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"Nay, fly to altars, there they'll talk you dead;
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
Ib. pp. 624, 625.
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The Emperor Alexander of Russia is said to have declared himself
"un accident heureux." The expression occurs in Mad. de Stael's
_Allemagne_, Sec. xvi.:--
"Mais quand dans un etat social le bonbeur lui-meme n'est,
pour ainsi dire, _qu'un accident heureux_ ... le patriotisme a
peu de perseverance."
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Gibbon, _Decl. and Fall_ (Lond. 1838. 8vo.), i. 134.:--
"His (T. Antoninus Pius') reign is marked by the rare
advantage of furnishing very few materials for history;
which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes,
follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
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