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All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
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Category: Literature Quotes
Occupation: Journalist
Year of Birth: 1660
Year of Death: 1731
Nationality: English





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