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Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.


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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.



We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.



For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.



Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.



That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.



Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.



When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.



You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday



The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.



He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.





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Something unspeakable left the room.

Something unspeakable left the room.



Cryptic Dad is cryptic, ' I muttered ... We'd hung out all day today. Was there no time in there he could have said, 'Oh, hey, meet me at the magical bookcase at the butt-crack of dawn tomorrow, cool?

Cryptic Dad is cryptic, ' I muttered ... We'd hung out all day today. Was there no time in there he could have said, 'Oh, hey, meet me at the magical bookcase at the butt-crack of dawn tomorrow, cool?



Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.



Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.



P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.

P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.



The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.

The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.



The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.



I said 'boss' and I meant that, advance you spent that Corvette so clean, you'll think Bruce Springsteen rent that

I said 'boss' and I meant that, advance you spent that Corvette so clean, you'll think Bruce Springsteen rent that



I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.



As my awareness increases, my control over my own being increases.

As my awareness increases, my control over my own being increases.




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