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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
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Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
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Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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The endearing elegance of female friendship.
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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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Language is the dress of thought.
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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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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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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
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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 are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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We talked of the education of children; and I asked him what he thought was best to teach them first. JOHNSON. "Sir, it is no matter what you ...
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages.
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