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"What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud."
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"He is every other inch a gentleman."
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"Most people don't mind being stupid, insomuch that they do not appear stupid; appearance and being are seldom simultaneous, congruent, and conclusive."
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"As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech."
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"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance."
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"In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop."
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"My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81."
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"Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel."
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"What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud."
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"Huge biceps are an unattractive-uneducated-underpaid man's last attempt to be seen as worthy of dating, or, sleeping with."
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"Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy But not express'd in fancy rich not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man."
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"Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it."
Family
"It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life."
Life
"The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak."
Faith
"Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little."
Politics
"Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them."
Man
"A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them."
Politics
"What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud."
Appearance
"There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element."
Appearance
"Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth."
Earth
"Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent."
Being
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