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A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
[ Entertainment ]
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
[ Welfare ]
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
[ Food and Eating ]
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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
[ Alcohol and Alcoholism ]
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A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.
[ Preachers and Preaching ]
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A vow is a snare for sin.
[ Vow ]
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A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.
[ Piety ]
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Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
[ Public Opinion ]
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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
[ Freedom ]
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All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
[ Wonder ]
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
[ Imitation ]
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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
[ Idleness ]
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At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
[ Age and Aging ]
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
[ Books - Reading ]
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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
[ Courage ]
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Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
[ Christians and Christianity ]
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
[ Heroes and Heroism ]
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
[ Quotations ]
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Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
[ Critics and Criticism ]
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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
[ Curiosity ]
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
[ Curiosity ]
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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
[ Music ]
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
[ Disease ]
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Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
[ Perspective ]
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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.
[ Calamity ]
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
[ Army and Navy ]
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
[ Quotations ]
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Exercise is labor without weariness.
[ Exercise ]
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Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
[ Focus ]
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For who is pleased with himself.
[ Happiness ]
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Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
[ Perseverance ]
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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.
[ Happiness ]
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He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
[ Wisdom ]
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
[ Ambition ]
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He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.
[ Neglect ]
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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
[ Courage ]
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He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
[ Greatness ]
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
[ Food and Eating ]
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He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
[ Wit ]
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He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
[ Pain ]
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He who praises every body, praises nobody.
[ Uncategorised ]
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
[ Praise ]
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
[ Charity ]
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I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
[ Humor ]
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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
[ Language ]
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I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
[ America ]
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I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.
[ Jokes and Jokers ]
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I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
[ Humankind ]
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
[ Kindness ]
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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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