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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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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowne...more

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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

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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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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrive...more

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

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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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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.