There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

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Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

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Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

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Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

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As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

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Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

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