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Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the…

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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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