Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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Of Chesterfield's Letters They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.
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He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power
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It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.
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Ah Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
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