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- The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
- All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any…
- If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other…
- In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be…
- And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been…
- Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
- If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know…
- There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.
- Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
- I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render…
- Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or…
- 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
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