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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others



We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself



He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse. He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a Lord may be an owl, A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice, And rooks, Committee-men or Trustees.



I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers.



All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.



Always eat grapes downward - that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot.



Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.



The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.



Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.



Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.



Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain: By this the fool commands the wise, The noble-with the base complies, The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make t



If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.



He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still.



The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than a thief to the gallows.



The public do not know enough to be experts, yet know enough to decide between them.








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