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Love works miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favoring the passions, destroying reason, and, in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
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The less one sees and knows men, the higher one esteems them; for experience teaches their real value.
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Men are so accustomed to lie, that one can not take too many precautions before trusting them — if they are to be trusted at all.
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We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being more conformable to our own natures: fools love folly, and wise men wisdom.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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Born:
May 14, 1553
Died:
March 27, 1615
(aged 61)
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