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" That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner. "

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" There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. "

" A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. "

" When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" What is easy is seldom excellent. "

" You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. "

" You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword. "

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

Self-Confidence

" Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find? "

" So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something. "

" It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. "

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

" Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. "

" Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. "

" No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring. "

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

" Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. "

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

" Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich. "

" All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. "

" Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. "

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

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

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

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

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

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