One may be humble out of pride.
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As plants are suffocated and drowned with too much moisture, and lamps with too much oil, so is the active part of the understanding with too much study.
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Man is certainly stark mad he cannot make a flea, And yet he will be making gods by dozens.
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We call that against nature which cometh against custom. But there is nothing, whatsoever it be, that is not According to nature.
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