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A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.
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I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be…
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If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains…
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When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.
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A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to…
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What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he…
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The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.
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Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments, at which…
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Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he…
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We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up…
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No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.…
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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it…
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Christ will be master of the heart, and sin must be mortified. If your life is unholy, then your heart is unchanged,…
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If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I…
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Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.
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Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully…
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Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says.
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It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
— William Hazlitt
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Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic…
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To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast
— Ruskin Bond
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True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.
— Alexandre Dumas
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It doth make a man better,' quoth Robin Hood, 'to bear of those noble men so long ago. When one doth list…
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