Dear Doctor (said he one day to a common acquaintance, who lamented the tender state of his inside), do not be like the spider, man and spin conversation thus incessantly out of thy own bowels.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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Of literary criticism You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
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Around his tomb let Art and Genius weep But hear his death, ye blockheads hear and sleep.
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