No man forgets his original trade the rights of nations and of kings sink into questions of grammar, if grammarians discuss them
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Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.Samuel Johnson
Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution he may have nothing to say.
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Avarice is always poor.
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There are multitudes whose life is nothing but a continuous lottery who are always within a few months of plenty and happiness, and how often soever they are mocked with blanks, expect a prize from the next adventure.
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