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If you haven’t found something strange during the day, it hasn’t been much of...
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Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in...
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There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and...
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Here stand I. I can do no other.
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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
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To business that we love, we rise betime and go to’t with delight.
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Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, – what are they?
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of...
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Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit and it is but common prudence...