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| That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy | | Universe | |
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| The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman | | Doctors | |
| The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing | | Inventions | |
| The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former. | | Uncategorized | |
| The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. | | Uncategorized | |
| The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit | | Fortune; Misery; Power | |
| The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. | | Uncategorized | |
| The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work. | | Uncategorized | |
| The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at | | Uncategorized | |
| There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say | | Uncategorized | |
| There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake. | | Uncategorized | |
| There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency. | | Uncategorized | |
| There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy. | | Uncategorized | |
| There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires. | | Uncategorized | |
| Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person | | Uncategorized | |
| Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder. | | Uncategorized | |
| Usually speaking, the worst bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad | | Travel | |
