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• One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular
• A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
• There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.
• People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.
• It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
• I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. . . .…
• Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her…
• Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of…
• Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.
• When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.
• Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
• A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his…

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