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| 'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit, Will condescend to take a bit |
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| A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in w |
| Children; Family; Friends |
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| A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment? |
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| A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour. |
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| A lie is an excuse guarded |
| Lies |
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| A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday. |
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| A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. |
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| A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. |
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| A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone |
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| A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. |
| Money |
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| A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. |
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| All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenues |
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| All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits. |
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| Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. |
| Ambition |
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| And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole |
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| Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading |
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| As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. |
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| As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. |
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