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Self-love is often...

Self-love is often...

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they...

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Sir, your wife,...

Sir, your wife,...

Sir, your wife, under pretence of keeping a bawdy-house, is a receiver of stolen goods.

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The chains of...

The chains of...

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be...

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The booksellers are...

The booksellers are...

The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.

Source: Life of Johnson, (J....

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They are forced...

They are forced...

They are forced plants, raised in a hot-bed; and they are poor plants; they are but cucumbers after...

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To Oliver Goldsmith,...

To Oliver Goldsmith,...

To Oliver Goldsmith, A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, and touched...

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This was a...

This was a...

This was a good enough dinner, to be sure; but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

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We love to...

We love to...

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again...

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When I observed...

When I observed...

When I observed he was a fine cat, saying, 'why yes, Sir, but I have had cats whom I liked better than this'; and then...

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To be idle...

To be idle...

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavours with his utmost care to hide...

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Turn on the...

Turn on the...

Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes,
Observe her labours, sluggard, and be wise.


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What we ever...

What we ever...

What we ever hope to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.

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Where secrecy or...

Where secrecy or...

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

Source:
--...

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Wickedness is always...

Wickedness is always...

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes a short cut to everything.

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Were it not...

Were it not...

Were it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a...

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You may abuse...

You may abuse...

You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though...

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Sin is a...

Sin is a...

Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to...

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Those only deserve...

Those only deserve...

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

Source:
-- William Hazlitt,...

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You know more...

You know more...

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the...

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Wit is the...

Wit is the...

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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