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You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
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Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
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Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.
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When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a
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When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did I suspect that I should be at 49, what I now am.
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When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
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To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well.
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
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To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
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To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship
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To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
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