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- I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the lord chancellor, upon a due…
- These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.
- I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place,…
- No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a…
- It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
- The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
- Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
- Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know…
- I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
- Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
- A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
- No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
- I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
- There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
- You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than…
- What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred…
- No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the…
- Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than…
- As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms…
- Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
- People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
- We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.
- The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
- Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than…
- The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and friends.…
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