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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.
Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.
In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
The trial of Ernst Zundel has gone down in Canadian history.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.
Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.
Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.
My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
WESTBURY, a nasty odious rotten-borough, a really rotten place.
Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.
Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.
From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.
I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.
I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.
Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.
A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.
The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.
If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels.
Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose, To tell what every schoolboy knows.
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.