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- Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
- The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave…
- The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
- A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but…
- Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men,…
- Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
- Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
- Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.
- Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter,…
- Women, then, are only children of a larger growth
- It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny…
- Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different.
- Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never excited a laugh…
- Most arts require long study and application; but the most useful of all, that of pleasing, only the desire.
- Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other, and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at…
- A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.
- Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man,…
- Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected there, but only…
- History is only a confused heap of facts
- Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools
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