. English poet essayist moralist literary critic biographer editor and lexicographer
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Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. Go to Quote / Comment
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. Go to Quote / Comment
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. Go to Quote / Comment
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. Go to Quote / Comment
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. Go to Quote / Comment