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He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

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Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

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She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.

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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

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Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

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Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.

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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

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Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

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Come, agree, the law's costly.

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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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The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

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As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

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Observation is an old man's memory.

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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

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Faith, that's as well said, as if I had said it myself.

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