It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
From Samuel Johnson
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Language is the dress of thought.
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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