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I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that i

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Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.

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For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind w

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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

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And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race

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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

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When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

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Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

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May you live all the days of your life.

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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.

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One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.

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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

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In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.

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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

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All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

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Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

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