“ Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught. ”
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“ Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught. ”
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“ Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side. ”
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“ Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes. ”
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“ Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it. ”
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“ Men are not hanged for stealing horses but that horses may not be stolen. ”
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“ The law hath so many contradictions and varyings from itself, that the law may not improperly be called a law-breaker. It is become too changeable a thing to be defined: it is made little less a Mystery than the Gospel. The clergy and the lawyers, like the Freemasons, may be supposed to take an oath not to tell the secret. ”
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“ The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation. ”
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“ The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past. ”
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“ A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner. ”
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“ Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much. ”
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“ Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it. ”
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“ Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes. ”
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“ Men are not hanged for stealing horses but that horses may not be stolen. ”
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“ Popularity... is generally an appeal to the people from the sentence given by men of sense against them. ”
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“ Men are not hanged for stealing horses but that horses may not be stolen. ”
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“ Fool hath no dialogue within himself; the first thought carrieth him shout the reply of a second. ”
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“ A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting. ”
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“ The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject. ”
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“ The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject. ”
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“ Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much. ”
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“ A wife is to thank God her husband hath faults. A husband without faults is a dangerous observer. ”
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“ The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. ”
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“ They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money. ”
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