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

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

" He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade. "

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" He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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