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My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.

Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!

The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.

The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

Man is nature's sole mistake.

Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.

Philosophy is for the few.

The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body.