It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man but I call him an unsocial man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.
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Every other author may aspire to praise the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.
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I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.
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