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• Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or…
• Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to…
• At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
• Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,…
• A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to…
• Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
• To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
• Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

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