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For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
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Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?
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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
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Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash...Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
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Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be
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