By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

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A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

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A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

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Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

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