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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but...
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It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a...
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The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the...
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The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year-old men...
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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a...
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To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure,...
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If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated
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The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances...
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My belief is that to have no wants is divine.
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When you tell the truth, people listen.