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"Genuinity is mother of stupidity."
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"A fishing-rod was a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other."
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"This nation is like all the others that have been spewed upon the earth - ready to shout for any cause that will tickle its vanity or fill its pocket. What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!"
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"I understand we'll be attending your friend Miss Worthington's Christmas ball. Perhaps I'll find a suitable-- which is to say wealthy-- wife among the ladies attending."And perhaps they will run screaming for the convent."
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"All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns."
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"Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap."
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"You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps."
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"Fella says today, 'Depression is over. I seen a jackrabbit, an' they wasn't nobody after him.' An' another fella says, 'That aint the reason. Can't afford to kill jackrabbits no more. Catch 'em and milk 'em an' turn 'em loose. One you seen prob'ly gone dry."
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"Im's offspring stare at stars and make clocks that calculate useless happenings like the angle of a hawk's claws as it strikes its prey. They demonstrate their contraptions and everyone marvels. My children get drunk, confuse a herd of cows with an enemy regiment, and slaughter the lot, screaming like lunatics until the entire army panics."
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"Did I see them waving?' said Mrs Liberty'And particling, I shouldn't wonder' said the Alderman."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
People
"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
Man
"He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage."
Power
"The future is purchased by the present."
Future
"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."
Life
"Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms."
Life
"The two offices of memory are collection and distribution."
Memory
"The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape."
Reflection
"My dear friend, clear your mind of can't."
Friendship
"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."
Knowledge
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