We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
From Samuel Johnson
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Love is only one of many passions.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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