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I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all
Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.
Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.
It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.
The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.
If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.
The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.
Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.
By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.
The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.
Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.
Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.
True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.
The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.
It world be well had we more misers than we have among us.
He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day.
Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.
Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.
The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.
How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.
Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.
If you don't ask me questions, I can't give you an untrue answer.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.
Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.
Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.
I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.
He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living
Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.
There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.
Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest