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Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed ...more

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Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious...more

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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks is truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

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Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken, themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people n...more

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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

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In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.