"Wit is the lowest form of humor."
"No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her."
"For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best."
"But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?"
"Act well your part, there all the honour lies."
"Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise."
"How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd."
"Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly."
"Never find fault with the absent."
"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man."
"Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place."
"A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature."
"Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!"
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