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Prayer must be, in its own nature, absurd and impertinent.

Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end.

Swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb.

How tedious is time, when his wings are loaded with expectation!

Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions.

Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.