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- Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.
- The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth…
- You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the…
- But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment…
- Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till…
- They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of…
- Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is…
- Luncheon: as much food as one's hand can hold.
- [W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use.
- As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer.…
- That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
- He that has too much to do will do something wrong.
- I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
- No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.
- All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
- In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.
- This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
- Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts…
- No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn…
- Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.
- Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves
- He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention…
- A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same…
- In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen…
- Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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