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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting...
Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did...
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. . . . There is a remedy in human nature against...
Men hate more steadily than they love.
Source: Quoted in: Boswell's Life of Samuel...
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Source: Rambler, no. 155...
It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must...
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and. . . the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of...
No man was ever great by imitation.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....
No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to...
Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his...
Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
My dear friend, clear your mind of cant . . . You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society: but...
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Source:...
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
Source: Quoted in: James...
Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly...
Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
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Painting consumes labour not disproportionate to its effect; but a fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble...
Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly...