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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

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A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.
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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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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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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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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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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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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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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 one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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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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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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