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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,…
• Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.
• 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.
• Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
• If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would…
• I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now…
• He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke…
• To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we…
• Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

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