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- Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
- Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
- Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
- High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own…
- Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
- It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a…
- A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we…
- Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who…
- It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives…
- It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own…
- One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
- He that floats lazily down the stream, in pursuit of something borne along by the same current, will find himself indeed moved forward; but unless…
- We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find…
- Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here find that calm…
- How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned,…
- The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is…
- From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will…
- The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by…
- This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.
- It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the…
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