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

" There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either. "

" A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. "

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" 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. "

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" Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others. "

" 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. "

" Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess. "

" Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. "

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

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" All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it. "

" I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. "

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" To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. "

" There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex. "

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" 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. "

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