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• Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.
• One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and…
• How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive,…
• Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the breast together towards the…
• Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.
• There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice…
• Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above…
• The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the…
• Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and…
• Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of…
• Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.
• Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.

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