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"Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit by the cheat distrust the deceiver; and the act by which kindness was sought puts an end to confidence."
"A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority."
"Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity."
"Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy."
"You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity."
"Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving."
"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."
"The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance."
"I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning."
"Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence."
"Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea."
"Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre"
"From Bard, to Bard, the frigid Caution crept, Till Declamation roar'd, while Passion slept."
"Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess."
"There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron."
"You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument."
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread."
"Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse."
"Grief is a species of idleness."
"You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword."