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A progeny of learning.
I own the soft impeachment.
I was struck all on a heap.
I loved him for himself alone.
I leave my character behind me.
Be just before you are generous.
Never say more than is necessary.
An oyster may be crossed in love.
There is no trusting appearances.
Easy writing's curst hard reading.
Easy writings curse is hard reading.
Humanity always becomes a conqueror.
An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
He is the very pineapple of politeness.
Good reading makes for damn hard writing.
No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?
Our memories are independent of our wills.
Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.
Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
The throne we honour is the people's choice.
There 's nothing like being used to a thing.
There's only one truth about war: people die.
An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
Those that vow the most are the least sincere.
Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
Self confidence is the ground stone of success
A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
Wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities.
They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.
The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you.
Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.
I ne'er could any luster see in eyes that would not look on me.
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.