"By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament."
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"People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages."
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"What one relishes, nourishes."
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"Little leaks sink the ship."
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"We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant."
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"In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds."
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"The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated."
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"An old man in a house is a good sign."
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"Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?"
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"A bargain is something you have to find a use for once you have bought it."
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"Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of."
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"Laws without morals are in vain."
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"But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength."
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"Praise little, dispraise less."
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"Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee."
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"Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients."
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"Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past; And neither fear nor wish the Approaches of the last. Learn of the skillful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master."
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"He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose."
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"Death takes no bribes."
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"Let the experiment be made."
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