Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
From Samuel Johnson
I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
What is easy is seldom excellent.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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