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Lose no time to contradict he...

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

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When a man is made a spiritua...

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.

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A secret is seldom safe in mo...

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

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A stander-by may sometimes, p...

A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.

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Books, like men their authors...

Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.

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This wine should be eaten, it...

This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.

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He that calls a man ungratefu...

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

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Conscience signifies that kno...

Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.

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Usually speaking, the worst-b...

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

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Neither is it safe to count u...

Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.

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Surely mortal man is a brooms...

Surely mortal man is a broomstick!

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For, if we take an examinatio...

For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

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A fig for partridges and quai...

A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

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Brutes find out where their t...

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

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A little grain of the romance...

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

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Though fear should lend him p...

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.

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Rhetoric in serious discourse...

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

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Love of flattery, in most men...

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

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Daphne knows, with equal ease...

Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.

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I can discover no political e...

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.

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