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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.

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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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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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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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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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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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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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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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