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In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
You never know what you can do till you try.
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
There's none so blind as they that won't see.
She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.
Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.
An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.
A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.
I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.
A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.
For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.
Abolishing slavery leads to slaves without masters
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.
A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.
Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.
What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian.
Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman.
All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.
I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.
Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.
Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.
'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.