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Lord, Madame, I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.
My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.
Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.
He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.
If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.
Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.
The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.
Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.
Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.
Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
Hail, follow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.
Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.
The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.
Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.