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The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

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When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

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The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

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Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

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The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

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The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

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The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

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Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

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The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

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Nationality: English

Type: Professions

Born: Unknown

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