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Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.
Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.
Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.
Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.
And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.
I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.
Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.
Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.
Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.
From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.
A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.
If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.
The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.
Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.
I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.
Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.
Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose, To tell what every schoolboy knows.
Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.
She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.
An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.