Cunning has effect from the credulity of others. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.
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Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine.Samuel Johnson
I can't drink a little, therefore I never touch it. Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult.
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Men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are honestly making money.
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Seeing Scotland, Madam, is only seeing a worse England.
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Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them.
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As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.
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