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Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show…
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Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
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Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least.
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Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least…
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It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either.…
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A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine…
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In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number,…
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Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
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Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.
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Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do…
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves…
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The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and…
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt…
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He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
— Thomas Otway
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It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.
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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be…
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To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,…
— Denis Diderot
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We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.
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