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| It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave than to expend it like a gentleman |
| Fortune |
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| It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. |
| Wealth |
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| It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to ''meddle not''. |
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| It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do |
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| Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say. |
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| Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. |
| Knowledge |
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| Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. |
| Fashion |
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| Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man has put asunder |
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| Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. |
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| Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. |
| Liberty |
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| Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess. |
| Life |
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| Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods |
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| Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual. |
| Love |
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| Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. |
| Reading; Writing |
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| Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. |
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| Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. |
| Marriage |
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| Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them |
| Books; Friends; Inventions; Memory; Success; Wit |
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| Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say |
| Men |
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| Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it |
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| Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes |
| Arguments |
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