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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. (agreement)
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. (banality)
Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing. (benefactors)
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. (fun)
It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk. (alcohol and alcoholi)
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance. (belief)
Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed. (alliances)
Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him. (argument)
Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible. (birth)
When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness. (amiability)
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself. (argument)
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. (animals)
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us. (consciousness)
There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad. (academia)
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint. (evil)
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war. (doctors)
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. (arts and artists)
When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented. (water)
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions. (value)
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. (vice)
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence. (vice)
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