By ignorance is pride increased; They most assume who know the least.
Wisdom
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Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it.
Life
The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess.
Love
O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed: By keeping men off, you keep them on.
Wisdom
Where yet was ever found a mother, Who'd give her booby for another?
Wisdom
Praising all alike, is praising none.
Wisdom
A moment of time may make us unhappy forever.
Happiness