We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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A Judge may be a farmer but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.Samuel Johnson
This doctrine (of ruling passions) is in itself pernicious as well as false its tendency is to produce the belief of a kind of moral predestination, or overruling principle which cannot be resisted he that admits it, is prepared to comply with ever.
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COUGH A convulsion of the lungs, vellicated by some sharp serosity.
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To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
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Of Chesterfield's Letters They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.
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Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate.
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