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" Better belly burst than good liquor be lost. "

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" Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. "

" Observation is an old man's memory. "

" Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. "

" No wise man ever wished to be younger. "

" I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. "

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" Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. "

" If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. "

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" When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. "

" Don't set your wit against a child. "

" Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. "

" No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. "

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" The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. "

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" I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. "

" 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. "

" Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. "

" Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. "

" My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool. "

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" It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. "

" He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. "