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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
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According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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