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- Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief…
- Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and…
- Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery.
- A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.
- In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever…
- That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to…
- The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps…
- Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.
- Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
- Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the…
- There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of…
- Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm…
- In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man;…
- The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection…
- One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.
- Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.
- It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
- There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.
- Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.
- Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.
- A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.
- In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.
- Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly
- The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives…
- It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating…
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