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- Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.
- The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients…
- Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.
- There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach to…
- There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that…
- If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
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