"Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding."
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"I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read."
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"Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance."
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"Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments."
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"Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt."
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"[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other."
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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every Nation has something peculiar in its Manufactures, its Works of Genius, its Medicines, its Agriculture, its Customs, and its Policy. He only is a useful Traveller, who brings home something by which his country may be benefited; who procures some supply of Want, or some mitigation of Evil, which may enable his readers to compare their condition with that of others, to improve it whenever it is worse, and whenever it is better to enjoy it."
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"It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination."
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"There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good."
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"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition."
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"Reason and truth will prevail at last"
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"The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity."
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"Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise."
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"Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible"
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"I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners."
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"Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled."
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"It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world."
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"I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance."
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"Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale."
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