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/ page 828 of 1205 /An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
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Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
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'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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He that is rich is wise.
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We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.
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Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.
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Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
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Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.
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Age is like love, it cannot be hid.
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What a heaven is love! O what a hell!
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Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.
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This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
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