His sayings are generally like women's letters all the pith is in the postcript.
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We go a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others. It is because I want a little breathing-space to muse on indifferent matters. . . .William Hazlitt
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
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In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull if you talk, you are thought impertinent or arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.
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Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight, and converts every object into a little universe in itself.
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Never say never and always avoid always.
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