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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.



Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.



Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.



The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover; and to promulgate the determinations of truth, whatever she shall dictate



Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense



Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest



While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.



Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates



Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, sure the most bitter is a scornful jest



While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.



Grief is a species of idleness.



The triumph of hope over experience



In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence



A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.



It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.







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