"No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself."
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"The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it."
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"There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation."
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"There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by."
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"Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place."
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"The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with."
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"We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke."
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"A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one."
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"To do something is in every man's power."
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"A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told."
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"No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself. While we see multitudes passing before us, of whom perhaps not one appears to deserve our notice or excites our sympathy, we should remember, that we likewise are lost in the same throng, that the eye which happens to glance upon us is turned in a moment on him that follows us, and that the utmost which we can reasonably hope or fear is to fill a vacant hour with prattle, and be forgotten."
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"Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly"
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"By writing, you learn to write."
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"This world, where much is to be done and little to be known."
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"Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses."
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"You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe."
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"In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind."
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"Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves."
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"No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius."
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"All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare."
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