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" Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. "

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" 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. "

" Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. "

" It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. "

" Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. "

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

" There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. "

" 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 return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. "

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

" There are charms made only for distant admiration. "

" 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. "

" It is better to live rich than to die rich. "

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

" Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. "

" The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery. "

" Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. "

" 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. "

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

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" Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. "

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" The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking. "

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

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