Our ancestors are very good kind of folks but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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Too civil by half.
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The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
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You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
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Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
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