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«Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.»
«It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.»
«It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.»
«It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.»
«There is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all Tom Jones.»
«He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.»
«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.»
«What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.»
«The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.»
«Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.»
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