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- It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
- Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
- A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.
- Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.
- Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions to…
- To do something is in every man's power.
- Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.
- A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.
- The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
- Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
- Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.
- The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps,…
- No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.
- 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.…
- The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.
- 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
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