Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.

According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

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