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- Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
- Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
- That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A…
- More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied…
- The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
- Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you…
- High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own…
- Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.
- It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a…
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary…
- The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given…
- Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed…
- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,…
- I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than…
- Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.
- We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more…
- I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between…
- No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.
- Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.
- It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with…
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