"Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot."

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When soured by disappointment we must endeavor to pursue some fixed and pleasing course of study, that there may be no blank leaf in our book of life. Painful and disagreeable ideas vanish from the mind that can fix its attention upon any subject.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann