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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage. ”
It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter. ”
The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about. ”
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. ”
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. ”
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. ”
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. ”
Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution. ”
The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived. ”
It must be quite rare for an interviewer to be interviewed. ”