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A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
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A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.
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A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.
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A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
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A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.
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A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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A library is thought in cold storage.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
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A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
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