"Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted."
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"All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread."
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"Soul of fibre and heart of oak."
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"The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death."
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"It takes all sorts (to make a world"
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"God who sends the wound sends the medicine."
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"Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death."
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"Jests that give pains are no jests."
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"Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also."
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"A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency."
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"I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters."
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"Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile."
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"One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth."
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"She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire."
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"It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow."
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"Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion."
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"Sing away sorrow, cast away care."
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"I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences."
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"And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale."
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"Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst."
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