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Judgment is forced upon us by experience



Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.



The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.



Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.



There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good



Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.



I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations



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



Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.



The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.



That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments



The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great, because their associates are little.



It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.



Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.



Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.







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