“If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.”
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Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.