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You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.