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- Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years.…
- Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
- Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
- There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.
- There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
- Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly…
- None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing…
- As a great part of the uneasiness of matrimony arises from mere trifles,, it would be wise in every young married man to enter into…
- It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.
- for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to…
- I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
- When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
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