. English poet essayist moralist literary critic biographer editor and lexicographer
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it. Go to Quote / Comment
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits not because recompense is a pleasure for them, but because obligation is a pain. Go to Quote / Comment
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. Go to Quote / Comment
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. Go to Quote / Comment
When I censured a gentleman of my acquaintance for marrying a second time, as it shewed a disregard of his first wife, he said, 'Not at all, S... Go to Quote / Comment