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That what cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.
The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.
Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil.
Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure.
People in distress never think that you feel enough.
The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.
An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.
Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.
As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.
Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.
Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.
Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.
There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.
No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.
Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness.
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.
Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.
Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
The present is never a happy state to any human being.
All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.
You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.
The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.
No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.
If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife.
I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.
The first years of man must make provision for the last.
All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.
Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.
One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity.