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

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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. "

" 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. "

" It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. "

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

" A man will turn over half a library to make one book. "

" Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. "

" Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed. "

" I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just. "

" All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it. "

" The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. "

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

" No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. "

" Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. "

" Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. "

" Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all. "

" There are charms made only for distant admiration. "

" A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority. "

" We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. "

" To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. "

" Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. "

" To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. "

" A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. "

" By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. "

" Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. "

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" Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. "

Self-Confidence

" Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again. "