As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONPedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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