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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
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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Age Growth Miracle Religion
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Coward Heaven Rich Value
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War

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