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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

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We could not have had a better dinner had there been a Synod of Cooks.

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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

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Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

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Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

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To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

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I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

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