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Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

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Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

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The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

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One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

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The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

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All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

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The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

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The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

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Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.

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Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

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I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

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Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

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A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

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A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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