"Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room."
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"Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few."
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"Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance."
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"Books, the children of the brain."
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"It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks."
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"Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion."
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"If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste."
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"So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less."
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"Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain."
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"Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age."
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"What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies."
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"It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom."
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"Better belly burst than good liquor be lost."
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"Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense."
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"There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done."
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"Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life."
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"Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery."
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"The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it. While you continue to be splenetic, count upon it I will always preach. Thus much I sympathize with you that I am not cheerful enough to write, for I believe Coffee once a week is necessary to that."
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"Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers."
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"An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before."
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