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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no...
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear...
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and...
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Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals...
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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.
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Quote #773
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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A minute’s success pays the failure of years.
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And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation...
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A diplomat… is a person who can tell you to go to hell in...