~ Truth springs from argument amongst friends. ~  ~ Truth springs from argument amongst friends. ~ ~ Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense ~ ~ What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary ~ ~ Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
~ ~ Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature. ~ ~ Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months. ~ ~ Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous ~ ~ Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel. ~ ~ Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions. ~ ~ The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. ~ ~ Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
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