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| 'Tis no sin to cheat the devil |
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| All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. |
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| An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch |
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| And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. |
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| As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. |
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From this amphibious ill-born mob began
That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman. |
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| He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters |
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| I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. |
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| In trouble to be troubled Is to have your trouble doubled |
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| It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions |
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| Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. |
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| Middle age is youth without its levity,/ And age without decay. |
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| Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could |
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| One day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand. |
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| The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late |
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