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The monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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Prawdę łatwiej wyłowić z błędów niż z zamętu.
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Men create oppositions, which are not; and put them into new terms, so fixed, as whereas the meaning ought to govern the term, the term in effect governeth the meaning.
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Umysłowi ludzkiemu nie skrzydeł potrzeba, lecz ołowiu.
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İnsanların ölümden korkması çocukların karanlık bir yere girmekten korkmalarına benzer, çocukların doğal korkusunu masallar nasıl arttırırsa, insanın ölüm korkusu da öyle artar.
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.
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I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.
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