The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
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An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.Samuel Johnson
I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
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Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise From Marlbroughs eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires, a driv'ler and a show.
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If I were punished for every pun I shed, there would not be left a puny shed of my punnish head
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Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings
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Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
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