To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.

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As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.

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Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

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Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

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Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.

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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.

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What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

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Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

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I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

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