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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 wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Children One Liner
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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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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