“Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.”
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“If you would keep your Secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.”
“Up, Sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.”
“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride.”
“Truth will be Truth tho' it sometimes prove mortifying and distasteful.”
“Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.”
“Public Disputes warm the Imagination, whet the Industry, and strengthen the natural Abilities.”
“It is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer.”
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes!”
“All Wars are Follies, very expensive & very mischievous ones.”
“A great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges.”
“Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.”