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- Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which…
- Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have…
- Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached…
- Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures…
- He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or…
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters…
- Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
- If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind;…
- Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his…
- Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the…
- Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are…
- It is the quality of patriotism to be jealous and watchful, to observe all secret machinations, and to see publick dangers at a distance. The…
- Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the…
- We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.
- No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in the country. For…
- A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.
- In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man;…
- Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before…
- I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him; but…
- If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
- Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
- A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.
- If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it.…
- Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers…
- Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.
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