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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
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One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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