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| A merchant's desire is not of glory, but of gain; not of public wealth, but of private emolument; he is, therefore, rarely to be consulted about war and peace, or any designs of wide extent and distant consequence |
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| A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man. |
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| A mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good |
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| A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest |
| 4th of July; Patriotism |
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| A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth. |
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| A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation |
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| A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write |
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| A tree might be a show in Scotland as a horse in Venice |
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| A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety. |
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| A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him |
| Ambition; Wisdom |
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| A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. |
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| A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion |
| Marriage; Money; Women |
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| About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets. |
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| About things on which the public thinks long it commonly thinks right. |
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| Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult. |
| Abstinence |
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| Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end |
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| Actions are visible, though motives are secret |
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| Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases |
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