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" A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. "

" 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. "

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

" Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. "

" Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. "

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

" That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner. "

" What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. "

" Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. "

" The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. "

" He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. "

" Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. "

" I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. "

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

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

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

" The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. "

" I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. "

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

" It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability. "

" 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. "

" Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. "

" 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. "

" He who praises everybody, praises nobody. "

" Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. "

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