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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

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What is easy is seldom excellent.

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Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

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So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

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Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.

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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

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A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.

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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

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Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

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Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.

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How gladly would I meet, Mortality, my sentence, and be earth...

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