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A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young ch ...
The master plan was laid out months ago. Jack Kemp would give 200 rubber-chicken dinners (sometimes it's meatballs or just cocktai ...
Lisa Fremont: Surprise is the most important element of attack. And besides, you're not up on your private eye literature. When th ...
I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave ...
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can ...
Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for ...
Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue.... Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, ...
I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
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