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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.
He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.
Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.
None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.
Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
Frequent discontent must proceed from frequent hardships.
A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.
Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.
Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.
All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.
Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting.
He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.
A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.
Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.
Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.
The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.
The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.
A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.
This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.
Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.
Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.
You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.
Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.
Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt.
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.
I respect Millar, sir: he has raised the price of literature.
A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.