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"We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot."
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"There is no such thing as senility when it comes to envy, greed laziness, wrath and pride. It's her destructive character from childhood."
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"You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days."
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"No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap."
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"Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works."
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"There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new."
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"My only aversion to vice, is the price."
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"Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized."
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"Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance."
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"Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness."
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"Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us."
God
"A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat."
Family
"Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels."
Army
"In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them."
Books
"No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man."
Wisdom
"Wise people say nothing in dangerous times."
People
"Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another."
Thought
"Old friends are best."
Friendship
"They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black."
Colors
"Philosophy is nothing but discretion."
Philosophy
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