You should make a point of trying every experience once, except incest and folk-dancing.
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The world is run by those who turn up.
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Irrationally-held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
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The first principle of all action is leisure.
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Marke all Mathematicall heads, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be
themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapte to serve the world.
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Habitual inaccuracy leads on in degrees to insincerity of mind.
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Life is like a herbaceous border: you sow one thing and another turns up.
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
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Education is what remains when you have forgotten everything that you were taught.
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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
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It is lack of taste, not lack of money, that explains the vileness of modern British architecture
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Envy and wrath shorten the life, and carefulness bringeth age before the time.
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Wine is as good as life to a man, if it be drunk moderately: what life is then to a man that is without wine?
for it was made to make men glad.
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The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise....
How can he get wisdom.... whose talk is of bullocks?
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To feel ill-at-ease and out of place except in one’s own period is to be a provincial in time.
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Music delighteth all ages and beseemeth all states, a thing as sensible in grief as in joy
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Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets;
feeble contrivance; could make a better one myself.
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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Mr Jeffrey Archer is proof of the proposition that in each of us lurks one bad novel.
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Do not think what you want to think until you know what you ought to know.
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He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do,
to think as wise men do; and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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From the meanest person, in some way, or other, the learnedst man may learn something.
Pride has been one of the greatest stoppers of the Advancement of Learning.
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It is well said that there are three of every man: that which he is, that which he only thinks he is,
and that which he really had intended to become.
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Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.
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Gentility is nothing else but ancient riches.
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Studies have great force to procure melancholy, if they be vehement and of difficult matters and high mysteries.
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For the majority of English people there are only two religions, Roman Catholic, which is wrong,
and the rest, which don’t matter.
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Gala is not a word included in the vocabulary of General de Gaulle.
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Il y a tellement de gens qui ont dit des choses avant nous qu’il faut un damné courage pour le dire après.
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For it is a great daunting to the best able men, and a great cutting off of his diligent paynes, when he shall finde his whole dayes travell [
travail]] not able to furnish him of necessarie provision.
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Tchouang-tseu rêve qu’il est un papillon, mais n’est-ce point le papillon qui rêve qu’il est Tchouang-tseu ?
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