Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.
From William Temple
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
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