Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

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  Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.

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  Flattery’s the food of fools.

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  I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

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  Falsehood flies, and Truth comes limping after it.

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  Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

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  We have just religion enough to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

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