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/ page 388 of 1205 /It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
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The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
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Secure, whate'er he gives, he gives the best.
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You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
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A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
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