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Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!
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Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.
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Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
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Nothing can be more obvious than all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
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Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
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Nothing so lifts a man from all his mean imprisonments, were it but for moments, as true admiration.
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.
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O Star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, to waft us home the message of despair?
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Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
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Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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Oh! no! we never mention her, her name is never heard; my lips are now forbid to speak, that once familiar word.
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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
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Oh, God! that bread should be so dear! And flesh and blood so cheap!
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Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
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