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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him

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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

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When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

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Fine words! I wonder where you stole them

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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.

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Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

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A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone

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In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.

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We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.

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Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.

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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

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I row after health like a waterman...

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Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

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Come hither, all ye empty things, Ye bubbles rais'd by breath of Kings;...

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Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.

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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at

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Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.

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One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to ...

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Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky

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