“ Riches, like glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them. ”
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“ I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older. ”
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“ There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. ”
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“ When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. ”
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“ My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened. ”
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“ When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. ”
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“ I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures. ”
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“ Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand. ”
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“ It is a common seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments. ”
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“ Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most. ”
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“ There is no course of life so weak and Scottish as that which is ordered by orders, method, and discipline. ”
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“ A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it. ”
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“ Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. ”
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“ An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity. ”
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“ Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. ”
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“ My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are. ”
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“ I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself. ”
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“ A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it. ”
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“ Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it. ”
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“ Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being. ”
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“ I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself. ”
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“ Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it. ”
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“ Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being. ”
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“ A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed. ”
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