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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but...
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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected,...
Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.Source: Referring to Lord...
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.Source: Rasselas, Ch....
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.Source: The Idler, in...
Round numbers are always false.Source: Life of Johnson, (J. Boswell), Vol....
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.Source:...
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which...
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.Source: Journal, 6...
OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but...
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their...
ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...
HEART, n. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments . . . . It is now known...
INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to -- in opposition...
New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to...
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day,...
Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true...
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why,...
The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return...
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed...
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