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" Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. "

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

" Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. "

" I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. "

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

" You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company. "

" The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. "

" Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. "

" What is easy is seldom excellent. "

" Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy. "

" 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 man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. "

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

Self-Confidence

" It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other. "

" 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. "

" Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. "

" The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. "

" The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. "

" It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. "

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

" It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. "

" The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. "

" There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. "

" Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. "

" 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. "

" I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. "

" Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. "

" Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. "

" Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. "