“I should prefer uneloquent good sense to loquacious folly.”
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“Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever.”
“Take care, Your Worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.”
“There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.”
“Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword.”
“It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.”
“The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.”
“It is not the hand but the understanding of a man that may be said to write.”
“Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.”
“Remember the old saying, "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady."”