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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another.
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.
I row after health like a waterman...
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
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If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the 'guru' - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.
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