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| We could not have had a better dinner had there been a Synod of Cooks. |
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| We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules |
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| We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves: how often we alter our minds, we do not always remark; because the change is sometimes made imperceptibly and |
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| We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. |
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| We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass. |
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| We may examine, indeed, but we never can decide, because our faculties are unequal to the subject: we see a little, and form an opinion; we see more, and change it |
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| We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as a guide |
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| We must either outlive our friends you know, or our friends must outlive us; and I see no man that would hesitate about the choice |
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| We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures |
| Memory |
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| We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us |
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| Well, (said he), we had a good talk. BOSWELL: Yes, Sir, you tossed and gored several persons. |
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| Were it not for imagination, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as a dutchess |
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| Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as a duchess |
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| What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect. |
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| What I learned from being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country |
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| What ills from beauty spring |
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| What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written. |
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| What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. |
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| What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more. |
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