We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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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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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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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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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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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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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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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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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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