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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.



Whoever shall review his life will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.



When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped



The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.



The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.



If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.



An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.



A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.



Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.



Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.



Surely, it is much easier to respect a man who has always had respect, than to respect a man who we know was last year no better than ourselves, and will be no better next year.



No man forgets his original trade: the rights of nations and of kings sink into questions of grammar, if grammarians discuss them.



It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.



Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.



Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.







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