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Francis Bacon: Surely every medicine...

Francis Bacon: Surely every medicine...

Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies, must expect new...

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Honesty is one...

Honesty is one...

Honesty is one part eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.

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We are all...

We are all...

We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

Source: In

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We are the...

We are the...

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. . . . Even...

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DIARY, n. A...

DIARY, n. A...

DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without...

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DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To...

DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To...

DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than...

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END, n. The...

END, n. The...

END, n. The position farthest removed on either hand from the Interlocutor.

Source:...

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FICKLENESS, n. The...

FICKLENESS, n. The...

FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.

Source: The...

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FORGETFULNESS, n. A...

FORGETFULNESS, n. A...

FORGETFULNESS, n. A gift of God bestowed upon doctors in compensation for their destitution of...

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JESTER, n. An...

JESTER, n. An...

JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . ...

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[We look like]...

[We look like]...

[We look like] a road company of the Last Supper.

Source: On lunching with James...

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There is never...

There is never...

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is...

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Americans, unhappily, have...

Americans, unhappily, have...

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant...

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I must oppose...

I must oppose...

I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know the spiritual...

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The fact that...

The fact that...

The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's...

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It is great...

It is great...

It is great to shake off the trammels of the world and of public opinion . . . and become the creature of the moment ....

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DIE, n. The...

DIE, n. The...

DIE, n. The singular of dice. We seldom hear the word, because there is a prohibitory proverb, Never say...

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ENTHUSIASM, n. A...

ENTHUSIASM, n. A...

ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of...

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FLOP, v. Suddenly...

FLOP, v. Suddenly...

FLOP, v. Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of...

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When the book...

When the book...

When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you...

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