"The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts."
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"To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity."
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"A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other."
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"A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it."
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"Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil."
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"Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed."
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"There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself."
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"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test."
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"No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance."
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"To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise."
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"To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt."
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"In all pleasures hope is a considerable part."
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"Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages."
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"Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . ."
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"Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement."
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"To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters."
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"As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil."
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"It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius."
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"Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him."
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"He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption."
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