In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.
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Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.Walter Bagehot
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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When great questions end, little parties begin.
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
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