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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
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All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
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But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
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Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
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Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
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Habit is second nature.
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Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
[ Recreation ]
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
[ Memory ]
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He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?
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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.
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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.
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I quote others in order to better express myself.
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I want death to find me planting my cabbage
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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It is a common seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments.
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.
[ Men ]
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It is not death that alarms me, but dying.
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It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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Let Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do.
[ Nature ]
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
[ Candor ]
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Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
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Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.
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My art and profession is to live.
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My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.
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My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.
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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
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No wind favors him who has no destined port.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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