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The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

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"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

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I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

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Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

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We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

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Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

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Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

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I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

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Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

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The more a man knows, the less he talks.

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Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

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Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

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