He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.Samuel Johnson
Men hate more steadily than they love.
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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.
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It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge.
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Wretched un-idea'd girls.
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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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