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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
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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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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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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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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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