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• Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But…
• No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.
• Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.
• The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
• None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded by the most…
• Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
• No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in…
• 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…
• A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
• A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.
• 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…
• Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency…
• It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.
• Every man is of importance to himself.
• A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
• Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for…
• When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was
• 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…
• A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
• In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever…
• 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…
• That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to…
• When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.
• I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.
• No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

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