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" When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation. "

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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. "

" One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. "

" I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. "

" Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. "

" Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. "

" I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just. "

" Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable. "

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

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

Self-Confidence

" My dear friend, clear your mind of cant. "

" So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. "

" Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return. "

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

" A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. "

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

" If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. "

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

" Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. "

" When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. "

" He who praises everybody, praises nobody. "

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

" Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. "

" To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. "

" Exercise is labor without weariness. "

" He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them. "

" There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. "

" Words are but the signs of ideas. "

" Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it. "

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