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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or…
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to…
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,…
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to…
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet to run amok and tilt at all I meet.
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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance…
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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
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To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,…
— Denis Diderot
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Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.
— Seneca the Younger
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From that night on, the electron-up to that time largely the plaything of the scientist-had clearly entered the field as a potent…
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of…
— John Brown
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight,…
— Alexander Pope
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What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns…
— Plutarch
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