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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.
- Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.
- Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
- I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule,…
- 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…
- In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it; for no species…
- 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…
- Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery…
- Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till…
- Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.
- 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…
- But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they…
- 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.…
- Men become friends by a community of pleasures.
- 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.
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