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Chance is the providence of adventurers.
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A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
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So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to…
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To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.
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An English man does not travel to see English men.
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Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.
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'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.
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It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as…
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First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got…
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Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst -…
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I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let…
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All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut;…
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