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- There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
- Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
- We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.
- What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it…
- General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not…
- The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of…
- Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
- The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.
- Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as…
- It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they…
- Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected…
- Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken
- The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and…
- I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those who judge of…
- From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.
- We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear:…
- The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.
- The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
- There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and sorrow; But, as…
- Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the bounds…
- The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so far from being…
- When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from…
- There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success…
- In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason ... If we were obliged to enter into a…
- You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with…
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