The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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He that never thinks never can be wise.Samuel Johnson
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence
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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
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It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind
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Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
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