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“We have all forgot more than we remember”
Thomas Fuller
“A book that is shut is but a block”
“If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf”
“Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved”
“Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth”
“Pride will spit in pride's face.”
“Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched. Try whether”
“A good horse should be seldom spurred”
“We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed”
“Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell”