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Keeping accounts, sir, is of ...

Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday.

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Knowledge is praised and desi...

Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws away from their studies; to whom any other method of wearing the day is more eligible than the use of books, and who are more easily engaged by any conversation than such as may rectify their notions or enlarge their comprehension.

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We ought not to raise expecta...

We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.

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Every man has a lurking wish ...

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

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A man had rather have a hundr...

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

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Though it is evident, that no...

Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.

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We may have uneasy feelings f...

We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.

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By writing, you learn to writ...

By writing, you learn to write.

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Though the wisdom or virtue o...

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.

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A blade of grass is always a ...

A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.

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It is true that of far the gr...

It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply; but it is true likewise, that these ideas are always incomplete, and that at least, till we have compared them with realities, we do not know them to be just. As we see more, we become possessed of more certainties, and consequently gain more principles of reasoning, and found a wider base of analogy.

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In civilized society we all d...

In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.

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There is a certain degree of ...

There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.

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A man with a good coat upon h...

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

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The balls of sight are so for...

The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.

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Most vices may be committed v...

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

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...a man estimable for his le...

...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination; a scholar with great brilliance of wit; a wit who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.

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His death eclipsed the gayety...

His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.

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Trust as little as you can to...

Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.

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Read the book you do honestly...

Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....