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- To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
- The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not…
- He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination…
- Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
- Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done…
- 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…
- Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or…
- Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both…
- I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would…
- Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race…
- All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from…
- Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.
- He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory,…
- I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and…
- 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…
- 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;…
- Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor…
- There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of…
- Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in…
- How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river…
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