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" 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. "

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

" The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression. "

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

" Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. "

" 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. "

" The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. "

" Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. "

" Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. "

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

" By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show. "

" No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. "

" Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. "

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

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

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

" There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten. "

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

" The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down. "