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| Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. | | Uncategorized | |
| Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. | | Uncategorized | |
| May you live all the days of your life. | | Life | |
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| Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly | | Men | |
| Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are an imitation of fighting | | Uncategorized | |
| My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool. | | Uncategorized | |
| No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. | | Uncategorized | |
| No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before | | Preachers and Preaching | |
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| Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretenses to foretell events | | Uncategorized | |
| One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. | | Uncategorized | |
| One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid | | Conversation | |
| One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid. | | Uncategorized | |
| Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after | | Passion | |
| Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruption. | | Uncategorized | |
