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" A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. "
Samuel Johnson
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" The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. "
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" The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. "
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" The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. "
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" The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down. "
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" Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. "
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" The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. "
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" He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else. "
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" Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. "
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" To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self. "
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" When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live. "
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" I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney. "
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" When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation. "
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" The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. "
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" Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. "
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" There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. "
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" What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. "
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" No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring. "
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" The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery. "
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" Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. "
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" He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade. "
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" If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. "
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" We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. "
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" Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. "
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