I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.
Thomas Babington Quotations
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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.