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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in ...more

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The joy of life is variety the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.

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Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed ...more

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Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious...more

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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

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That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply w...more

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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

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It is better to live rich than to die rich.

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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless effo...more

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The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

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Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks is truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

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Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; so they have betaken, themselves to errour. Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people n...more