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"In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me."
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"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."
"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."
"The body is not a reliable friend."
"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."
"The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again."
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"'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman."
"Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear."
"Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass."
"To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task."
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