If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
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If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.Samuel Johnson
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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So many qualities are indeed requisite to the possibility of friendship, and so many accidents must concur to its rise and its continuance, that the greatest part of mankind content themselves without it, and supply its place as they can, with intere.
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Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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