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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight.
He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
Example is always more efficacious than precept.
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.
Books without the knowledge of life are useless.
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.
Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.
I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.
He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Still we love The evil we do, until we suffer it.
He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.
All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.
The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.
Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
There are charms made only for distant admiration.
A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
The civilities of the great are never thrown away.
men do not suspect faults which they do not commit
Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant
Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
He that has too much to do will do something wrong.
It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.
Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep.
When a Man is tried of London, he is tired of life.
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Allegories drawn to great length will always break.
A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.
Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.