If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.Samuel Butler
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide
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