Knowledge always demands increase it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.
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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
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If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies,'Tis a proof that he had rather; Have a turnip than his father.
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In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.
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The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.
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The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
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