The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

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Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

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The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit.

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