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Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.
Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.
Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.
The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.
The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.
Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.
An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.
A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.
It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.
This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.
A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.
Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.
I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.
Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.