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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.



The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.



Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.



The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue



One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.



Where there is no difficulty there is no praise



Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.



All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.



Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.



Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.



We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor,



We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor,



Power is always gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.



Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.



Of the innumerable authors whose performances are thus treasured up in magnificent obscurity (in a library), most are forgotten, because they never deserved to be remembered.







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