We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.
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To embarrass justice by a multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, are the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passageSamuel Johnson
I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin.
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Men do not suspect faults which they do not commit.
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But Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England.
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A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
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The first years of man make provision for the last.
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