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" Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. "

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" It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. "

" It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. "

" Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. "

" Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. "

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

" If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. "

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

" He who praises everybody, praises nobody. "

" The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. "

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

" No man was ever great by imitation. "

" Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. "

" 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. "

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

" Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy. "

" I will be conquered; I will not capitulate. "

" 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. "

" There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. "

" To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self. "

" The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. "

" The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. "

" There are charms made only for distant admiration. "

" What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. "

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

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

" We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. "

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

" Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. "

" You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. "