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• Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You…
• Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what…
• If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it.…
• Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers…
• Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.
• All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
• No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.
• You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.
• There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do…
• Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.
• Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly
• Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess…
• Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts…
• No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn…
• All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In…
• ...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his…
• Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.
• Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to…
• That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man,…
• When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying…
• It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.
• It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices…
• Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of…
• The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.
• A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will…

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