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- Luxury, so far as it reaches the people, will do good to the race of people; it will strengthen and multiply them. Sir, no nation…
- Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob.
- The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never…
- Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.
- 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…
- Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
- Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
- There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care…
- Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
- Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused
- 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…
- Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining…
- The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain
- Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest
- Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expenses
- The commercial world is very frequently put into confusion by the bankruptcy of merchants, that assumed the splendour of wealth only to obtain the privilege…
- The people is a very heterogeneous and confused mass of the wealthy and the poor, the wise and the foolish, the good and the bad
- Most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things
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