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Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through
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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.
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I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.
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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
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Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
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And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.
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Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning
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She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
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It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of, and in your nature, there lies hidden rich mines of thought and purpose awaiting your development
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