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I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and...
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In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as...
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.Source: -- Samuel...
Ridicule is a kind of gangrene, which if it seizes one part of a character corrupts all the...
Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with...
Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at...
Questioning is not the mode of the conversation among gentlemen.Source: Quoted in:...
OATS, 'n'. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the...
There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction...
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. . . . Even...
DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave driver. More about this quote...
DISTANCE, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs, and...
DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than...
ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else....
ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of...
ELOQUENCE, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift...
FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as...
FOLLY, n. That gift and faculty divine whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions...
HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable,...
ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction. More about this quote...
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