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A full belly makes a dull brain
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less…
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Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot…
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I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he…
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Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one…
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I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension…
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When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not…
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Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis…
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely,…
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I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools,…
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Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a…
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The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
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He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he cannot perceive. And he's a fool a fool who tries to make…
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We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced…
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And…
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