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There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

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Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

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A fool and his words are soon parted.

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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

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Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

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His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

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My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

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Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

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A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.

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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

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Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

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Be just before you are generous.

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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

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You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.

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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.

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