True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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Not a day without a line.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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