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- Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very…
- Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high…
- Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.
- Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.
- 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…
- A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first…
- In the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or…
- Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms.
- He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as…
- Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon…
- For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed…
- I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make anew acquaintance.
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