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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
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Law is a bottomless pit.
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Among innumerable footsteps of divine providence to be found in the works of nature, there is a very remarkable one to be…
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Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.
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The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine…
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The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind…
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Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
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Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.
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Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus."…
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It is impossible for a Die, with such determin'd force and direction, not to fall on such determin'd side, only I don't…
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Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)
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He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.
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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality
— Ivan Pavlov
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Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.
— Jean Toomer
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The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind…
— John Arbuthnot
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There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have…
— Germaine Greer
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In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill…
— William E. Gladstone
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
— Jeremy Taylor
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Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
— Nate
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