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A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.
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A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.
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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
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Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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Alone, alone, all all alone. Alone on a wide, wide sea!
Rhyme of the ancient mariner (1798) -
Although she herself was ill enough to justify being in bed had been a person weak-minded enough to give up, Rose Sawyer could see that her brother, the Reverend Samuel Sayer, was far more ill.
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