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Vote:   | Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school. |
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Vote: | Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold. |
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Vote: | I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. |
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Vote: | I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due. |
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Vote: | It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink. |
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Vote: | Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel. |
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Vote: | Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. |
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Vote: | Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. |
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Vote: | Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. |
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Vote: | Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. |
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Vote: | The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. |
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Vote: | The wisest prophets make sure of the event first. |
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Vote: | This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. |
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Vote: | Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. |