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- A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
- Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
- War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience,…
- Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does…
- The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
- An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer…
- Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind ... more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.
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