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• Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!
• To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the…
• On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite…
• From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will…
• The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
• Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
• No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown…
• The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of…
• Every one should consider himself as intrusted not only with his own conduct, but with that of others; and as accountable, not only for the…
• The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity…
• No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption…
• 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…
• A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
• 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…
• Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible.…
• It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.
• A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
• It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.
• Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association…
• 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…
• This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
• A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
• As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.
• A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.
• This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.

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