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• If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a…
• Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.
• War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
• A noisy man is always in the right.
• How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and…
• Grief is itself a medicine.
• Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
• No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
• Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne.…
• I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
• Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows,…
• Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does…

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