Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Sydney Smith
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Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
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Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
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Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanilla of society.
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I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.
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When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool.
He was a one-book man. Some men have only one book in them; others, a library.
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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
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The fact is that in order to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
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Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.
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Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.
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What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
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Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.
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Magnificent spectacle of human happiness.
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