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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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My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

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Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

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Just get the right syllable in the proper place.

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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

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Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

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There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.

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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

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I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

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It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

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Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

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A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

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Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

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