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There is nothing insignificant, nothing.
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There is nothing insignificant, nothing.
I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.
Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest responses.
If you want a thing well done, get a couple of old broads to do it.
Prophecy really includes ordinary knowledge.
Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.