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Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.
The dignity of history.
Enough is equal to a feast.
Penny saved is a penny got.
Handsome is that handsome does.
Success is a fruit of slow growth.
Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
All nature wears one universal grin.
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.
Clergy are men as well as other folks.
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
One fool at least in every married couple.
What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory.
It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
These are called the pious frauds of friendship.
Dignity and love were never yet boon companions.
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
There's one fool at least in every married couple.
Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.
Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.
A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
