Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
From Samuel Johnson
There are charms made only for distant admiration.
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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