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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
[ Money ]
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All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
[ Jokes and Jokers ]
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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
[ Love ]
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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
[ Alcohol and Alcoholism ]
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Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
[ Censure ]
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Come, agree, the law's costly.
[ Law Suits ]
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Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.
[ Complaints and Complaining ]
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Don't set your wit against a child.
[ Parents and Parenting ]
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
[ Age and Aging ]
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Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.
[ Anecdotes ]
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Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
[ Happiness ]
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
[ Greatness ]
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
[ Shame ]
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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
[ Kisses and Kissing ]
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Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
[ Invention and Inventor ]
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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
[ Risk ]
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May you live all the days of your life.
[ Life and Living ]
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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
[ Men ]
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
[ Age and Aging ]
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
[ Charity ]
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Observation is an old man's memory.
[ Memory ]
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
[ Enemies ]
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
[ Nations ]
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
[ Power ]
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Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
[ Exaggeration ]
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Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
[ Promises ]
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Promises and Pye-Crusts, are made to be broken.
[ Uncategorised ]
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
[ Reason ]
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She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
[ Dress ]
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Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
[ Doctors ]
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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
[ Belief ]
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
[ Credulity ]
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The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
[ Style ]
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
[ Mistakes ]
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There's none so blind as they that won't see.
[ Blindness ]
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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
[ Vanity ]
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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
[ Vision ]
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
[ Disease ]
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What some people invent the rest enlarge.
[ Humor ]
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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
[ Heaven ]
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