"Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach."
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"An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it. It is the custom of his country, and there is profit in it. We must live by the world, and such as we find it, so make use of it."
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"It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many."
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"To smell, though well, is to stink."
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"Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning."
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"Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that."
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"I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life."
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"Ambition is not a vice of little people."
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"It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife."
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"To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us."
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"I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance."
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"Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget."
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"To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way."
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"Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful."
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"All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature"
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"The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes."
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"Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities."
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"The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest."
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"We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping."
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"All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly."
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