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• Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
• Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike,…
• We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together,…
• Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our…
• Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.
• While you are upon the earth, enjoy the good things that are here.
• You will want a book which contains not man's thoughts, but God's - not a book that may amuse you, but a…
• Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.

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