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| Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes the short cut to everything |
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| Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. |
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| Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. |
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| Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. . . . This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. |
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| Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others. |
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| Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands |
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| Wit can stand its ground against Truth only a little while |
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| With regard to the sharpest and most melting sorrow, that which arises from the loss of those whom we have loved with tenderness, it may be observed, that friendship between mortals can be contracted on no other terms than that one must some time mou |
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| Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor. |
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| Words are but the signs of ideas. |
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| Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united |
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| Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet |
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| Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see |
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| You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity. |
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| You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you. |
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| You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. |
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| You could not stand five minutes with that man (Burke) beneath a shed while it rained, but you must be convinced you had been standing with the greatest man you had ever yet seen |
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| You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. |
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| You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword |
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| You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income. |
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