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" The true art of memory is the art of attention. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Words are but the signs of ideas. "

" There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman. "

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

" Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us. "

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

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

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

" The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. "

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

" No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. "

" Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. "

" Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. "

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

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

" The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. "

" 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. "

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

" Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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