"Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives."
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"I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world."
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"Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world."
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"Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage."
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"There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence."
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"Curiosity is the thirst of the soul."
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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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"Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world."
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"All intellectual improvement arises from leisure."
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"As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow."
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"The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it."
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"To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack."
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"All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil."
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"A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal."
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"Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault."
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"The fortitude which has encountered no dangers, that prudence which has surmounted no difficulties, that integrity which has been attacked by no temptation, can at best be considered but as gold not yet brought to the test, of which therefore the true value cannot be assigned."
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"Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony"
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"Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's Church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shown to be very insignificant."
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"He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself."
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"He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt."
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