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