"'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit."
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"I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand."
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"Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs."
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"Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off."
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"Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection."
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"Vision is seeing the invisible."
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"I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite."
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"A lie is an excuse guarded"
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"Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy."
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"Fine words! I wonder where you stole them."
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"Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison."
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"The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light."
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"I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen."
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"When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric."
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"The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style."
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"The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language."
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"We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same."
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"The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion."
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"Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest."
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"A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses."
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