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• A carpenter is known by his chips.
• The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
• The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be…
• The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be…
• A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose…
• I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
• The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.
• I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
• Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
• It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
• Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the…
• Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which…

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