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- I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
- In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is…
- I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between…
- I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by…
- What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let…
- Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
- That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will…
- Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
- The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only…
- I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.
- He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to…
- Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape…
- Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!
- I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is…
- To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at least,…
- Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
- They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of…
- Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is…
- It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what…
- Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger meaning; he that…
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