A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.Samuel Johnson
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
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Against the head which innocence secures, Insidious malice aims her dart in vain Turned backwards by the powerful breath of heaven.
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Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
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We are to consider mankind not as we wish them, but as we find them, frequently corrupt and always fallible.
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