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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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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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A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge.

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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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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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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

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The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

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Dictionaries are like watches. The worst is better than none at all and even the best cannot be expected to run quite true.

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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.

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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.