"I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice."
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"We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us."
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"I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten."
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"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."
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"Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment."
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"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."
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"A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself."
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"The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression."
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"What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more."
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"Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return."
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"To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself."
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"Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it."
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"By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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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."
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"Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home."
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"I will be conquered; I will not capitulate."
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"For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill."
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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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"The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live."
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