We think as we do, mainly because other people think so.
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He knew what 's what, and that 's as high As metaphysic wit can fly.
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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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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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If old Pontifex had had Cromwell's chances he would have done all that Cromwell did, and have done it better if he had had Giotto's chances he would have done all that Giotto did, and done it no worse as it was, he was a village carpenter, and I wi
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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