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- It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity;…
- In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human…
- 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…
- No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting…
- How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as…
- Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor…
- To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at least,…
- All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
- By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
- I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
- All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
- I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world
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