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Mathematical Studies May Serve For A Pleasant Entertainment For Those Hours Which Young Men Are Apt To Throw Away Upon Their Vices.

I Believe The Calculation Of The Quantity Of Probability Might Be Improved To A Very Useful And Pleasant Speculation, And Applied To A Great Many Events Which Are Accidental, Besides Those Of Games; Only These Cases Would Be Infinitely More Confused, As Depending On Chances Which The Most Part Of Men Are Ignorant Of.

It Is Surprising To See What Superficial, Inconsequential Reasonings Satisfy The Most Part Of Mankind. A Piece Of Wit, A Jest, A Simile, Or A Quotation Of An Author, Passes For A Mighty Argument.... This Weakness And Effeminacy Of Mankind In Being Persuaded Where They Are Delighted, Have Made Them The Sport Of Orators, Poets, And Men Of Wit.

The Dumpling-eaters Are A Race Sprung Partly From The Old Epicurean And Partly From The Peripatetic Sect; They Were First Brought Into Britain By Julius Caesar; And Finding It A Land Of Plenty, They Wisely Resolved Never To Go Home Again.

Never Contradict. Never Explain. Never Apologize. (those Are The Secrets Of A Happy Life!)