Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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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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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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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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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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And surely 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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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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