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An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.
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War is the child of Pride, and Pride the daughter of Riches.
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So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns
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For, what though his Head be empty, provided his Common place-Book be full...
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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
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No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.
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So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.
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If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots I would burn my [Gulliver's] Travels.
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So, naturalists observe, a flea - Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum
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