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" He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else. "

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" Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. "

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" Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. "

" Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. "

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" Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. "

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" The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression. "

" It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. "

" Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. "

" Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. "

" In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. "

" A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. "

" Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself. "

" I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. "

" There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. "

" A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. "

" Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him. "

" The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking. "

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" What is easy is seldom excellent. "

" Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. "

" Exercise is labor without weariness. "

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" If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it? "