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Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.
Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.
We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.
No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself
Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.
Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
That we must all die, we always knew, I wish I had sooner remembred it.
Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.
A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company
They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.
Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.
Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well.
He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.
What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous.
It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.
I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.
If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman.
What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.
Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.
A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.
Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.
Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.
A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.
It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.
You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.
He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.
Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.