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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

Man is forming thousands of ridiculous relations between himself and God.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

No matter that we may mount on stilts, we still must walk on our own legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.

Saying is one thing and doing is another.