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Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
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Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
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Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
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Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
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Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
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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.
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So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
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So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
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So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
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Some people think that Brexit is the end of the world. It's not. On the contrary, it's a massive opportunity for this country.
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Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
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Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
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