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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.