To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

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A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

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That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

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Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

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What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.

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Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

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What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson in Lives of the Poets
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

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Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

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