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"Pride the first peer and president of hell."
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"How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them."

"After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world."

"We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot."

"Pride the first peer and president of hell."
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"Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes."

"All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have."

"I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women."

"It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions."
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