It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
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Wine gives a man nothing.. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern.. No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
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