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If the man who turnips cries,
Cry not when his father dies,
'Tis a proof that he had rather
Have a turnip...
Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use...
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be...
It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of...
I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and...
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...
Knowledge of the subject is to the poet what durable materials are to the architect.
LEXICOGRAPHER: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing...
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to...
I refute it thus.
Source: Replying to Boswell's contention that they were unable to...
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and...
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Language is the dress of thought.
Source: Lives of the English Poets - Cowley
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It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in...
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life...
It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
Source: In...
Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his...
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Source:
-- Samuel...
Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. ...
I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an...