"All this [wealth] excludes but one evil,--poverty."

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"The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to England."

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"What is read twice is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed."

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"Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known."

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"Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way."

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"The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience."

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"Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young."

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"How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy."

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"In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath."

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"That saw the manners in the face."

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"Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage."

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"The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice."

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"Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison."

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"Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England."

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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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"Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend."

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"A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected."

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"Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat."

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"As with my hat upon my head I walk'd along the Strand, I there did meet another man With his hat in his hand."

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"As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him," so it is in travelling,--a man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge."

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"Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult."

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"I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice."

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"Round numbers are always false."

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"This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords."

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"The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth."

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"A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden."

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"To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example."

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"In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die."

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"If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons."

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"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill."

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"Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay."

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"Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy."

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"Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people."

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"Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy."

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"I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing." . . . There was another fine passage too which he struck out: "When I was a young man, being anxious to distinguish myself, I was perpetually starting new propositions. But I soon gave this over; for I found that generally what was new was false.""

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"The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public."

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"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."

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"The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone."

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"Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves."

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"Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world."

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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good."

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"Of Dr. Goldsmith he said, "No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.""

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"Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?"

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"Knowledge is more than equivalent to force."

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"Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?"

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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 or inn."

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"Hawkesworth said of Johnson, "You have a memory that would convict any author of plagiarism in any court of literature in the world.""

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"Blown about with every wind of criticism."

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"That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona."

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"Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do."

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