"People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed."
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"A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity."
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"A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician."
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"The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy."
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"To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy."
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"What is easy is seldom excellent."
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"If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?"
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"What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country."
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"We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction."
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"Love is only one of many passions."
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"I have always said the first Whig was the Devil."
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"It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow."
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"The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence."
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"He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience."
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"To a poet nothing can be useless."
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"Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe; averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage."
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"Indolence is the devil's cushion."
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"Words are but the signs of ideas."
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"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress."
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"We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more."
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