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Old folks love to seem wise- and if you are silly enough to correspond with grey hairs, take the consequence.

— Ignatius Sancho

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A wise economy- without avaricious meanness, or dirty rapacity will in a few years render you decently independent.

My friend L___ is in town, and intends trying his fortune among us- as teacher of murder and neck-breaking, alias, fencing and riding.

This- this- is liberty! genuine British liberty!- This instant about two thousand liberty boys are swearing and swaggering by with large sticks

Poverty and Genius were coupled by the wisdom of Providence for wise and good ends, no doubt

Could I new-model Nature, your sex should rule supreme, there should be no other ambition but that of pleasing the ladies, no other warfare but the contention of obsequious lovers, nor any glory but the bliss of being approved by the Fair.

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