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A hoarseness caused by swallowing gold and silver.

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.