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Why should people pay good money to go out and see bad films when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing?
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Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
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Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live.
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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
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You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.
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Young men have more virtue than old men, they have more generous sentiments in every respect.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
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