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- Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
- That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would…
- I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful…
- She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.
- A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.
- It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe…
- A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.
- There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
- One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
- We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
- And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot…
- Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more…
- Some people take more care to hide their wisdom, than their folly.
- Nothing is more generally exploded than the folly of talking too much.
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