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

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" All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. "

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" Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find? "

" 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. "

" Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. "

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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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" Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. "

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" There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. "

" He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else. "

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" Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. "

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" 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. "

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