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Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eyes.

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This man [Lord Chesterfield] I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.

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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

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Language is the dress of thought.

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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

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Words are but the signs of ideas.

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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

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They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.

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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

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Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

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Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.

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