“ The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. ”
- James Goldsmith- Copy
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“ Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness. ”
- James Goldsmith- Copy
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“ None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations… ”
- James Goldsmith- Copy
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“ Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort. ”
- James Goldsmith- Copy
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“ None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations… ”
- James Goldsmith- Copy
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“ Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness. ”
- James Goldsmith- Copy
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“ None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations… ”
- James Goldsmith- Copy
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“ Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness. ”
- James Goldsmith- Copy
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“ Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort. ”
- James Goldsmith- Copy
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“ None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations… ”
- James Goldsmith- Copy
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“ Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort. ”
- James Goldsmith- Copy
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“ Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness. ”
- James Goldsmith- Copy
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“ Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness. ”
- James Goldsmith- Copy
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“ When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity. ”
- James Goldsmith- Copy
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“ Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort. ”
- James Goldsmith- Copy
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“ None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations… ”
- James Goldsmith- Copy
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“ Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort. ”
- James Goldsmith- Copy
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“ None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations… ”
- James Goldsmith- Copy
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“ Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness. ”
- James Goldsmith- Copy
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“ Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness. ”
- James Goldsmith- Copy
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“ None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations… ”
- James Goldsmith- Copy
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“ None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations… ”
- James Goldsmith- Copy
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