We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.Samuel Johnson
It is easy to talk of sitting at home contented, when others are seeing or making shows. But not to have been where it is supposed, and seldom supposed falsely, that all would go if they could to be able to say nothing when everyone is talking. . .
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Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
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The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.
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He that finds his knowledge narrow, and his arguments weak, and by consequence his suffrage not much regarded, is sometimes in hope of gaining that attention by his clamours which he cannot otherwise obtain, and is pleased with remembering that at la.
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An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.
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