Be just before you are generous.
From Richard Brinsley Sheridan
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!
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