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| When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. | | Uncategorized | |
| When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligen | | Celebrity; Happiness | |
| When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency | | Uncategorized | |
| When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four | | Uncategorized | |
| When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed | | Uncategorized | |
| Where a great proportion of the people are suffered to languish in helpless misery, that country must be ill policed, and wretchedly governed: a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization | | Civilization | |
| Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates | | Grief | |
| Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off | | Uncategorized | |
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| Where there is no hope there can be no endeavor | | Effort; Hope | |
| While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best | | Writers | |
| While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. | | Grief | |
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| Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society | | Uncategorized | |
| Whoever envies another confesses his superiority | | Superiority | |
| Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence | | Uncategorized | |
| Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. | | Uncategorized | |
| Whoever thinks of going; to bed before ten o'clock is a scoundrel | | Uncategorized | |
| Why now, these fellows are only advertising my book; it is surely better a man should be abused than forgotten | | Uncategorized | |
| Why, life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford | | Life | |
