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It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.
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A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
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The sight of you is good for sore eyes.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Last Update: 28 July 2021
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