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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.



Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem



The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman



Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of style.



Vision is the art of seeing things invisible to others.



Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.†



Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.



Don't set your wit against a child.



There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.



It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.



What some invent the rest enlarge.



The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.



There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.



We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.



There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.








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