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 | "A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of
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Found in the topic Man.
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| "To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which
if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue." | |
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Found in the topic Abstinence.
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| "Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an
author as silence. His name, like the shuttlecock, must be beat backward
and forward, or it falls to the ground." | |
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Found in the topic Author.
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| "I love the acquaintance of young people, because, in the first
place, I don"t like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young
acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then young men have
more generous sentiments in every respect." | |
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Found in the topic Youth.
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| "No mind is much employed upon the present: recollection and
anticipation fill up almost all our moments." | |
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Found in the topic Present.
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| "He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an
uncertainty." | |
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Found in the topic Chance.
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| "Adversity is the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted
with himself, being especially free from admirers then." | |
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Found in the topic Adversity.
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| "Whatever you have spend less." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Wine makes a man better pleased with himself; I do not say that it
makes him more pleasing to others." | |
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Found in the topic Alcohol.
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| "Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should
consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having." | |
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Found in the topic Flattery.
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| "When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean
conversation." | |
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Found in the topic Conversation.
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| "The true art of memory is the art of attention." | |
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Found in the topic Memory.
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| "The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression
of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful
truth in a few words." | |
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Found in the topic Aphorism.
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| "Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it
rebounds." | |
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Found in the topic Attack.
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| "Johnson observed that he ?did not care to speak ill of any man
behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney?." | |
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Found in the topic Lawyers.
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| "That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong
one." | |
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Found in the topic Wrong.
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| "Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the
anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made
it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let
me see something tomorrow which I never saw before." | |
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Found in the topic Change.
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| "Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it
flies! Life "s a short summer, man a flower; He dies?alas! how soon he
dies!" | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is
not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it
is." | |
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Found in the topic Light.
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| "Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen." | |
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Found in the topic Question.
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