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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a library. More about this person...
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Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.Source: In...
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. More about this person...
Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.Source:...
Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they...
Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with...
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. More about this person...
Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. More about this person...
Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at...
Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsocial man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode...
Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me...
Questioning is not the mode of the conversation among gentlemen.Source: Quoted in:...
Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people...
Sir, it is not so much to be lamented that Old England is lost, as that the Scotch have found...
Sir, the insolence of wealth will creep out.Source: Life of Johnson, (J. Boswell),...
OATS, 'n'. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the...
Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.Source: In Webster's...
Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea. More about this person...
Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.Source: Quoted...
Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of...
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