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"Novelty is the great parent of pleasure."
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"Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason."
Abstinence

"Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument."
Argument

"In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation."
Expectation

"Novelty is the great parent of pleasure."
Novelty

"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus."
Defeat

"Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it."
Men

"The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible."
Mind

"Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities."
Men

"Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart."
Heart

"It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination."
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"Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad."
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Personal Development

"There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty."
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"Novelty is the great parent of pleasure."
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Personal Development
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