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/ page 1110 of 1205 /The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
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I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
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In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
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I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
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Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
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As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.
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To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
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What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
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Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
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Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
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The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
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Live always in the best company when you read.
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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
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Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
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