Whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind than the whole race of politicians put together.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money; hence money is better than counsel.
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.