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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
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The luster 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.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.
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The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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The most perfect humor and irony is generally quite unconscious.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.
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The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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