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Civility cost nothing.
Solitude begets whimsies.
Men are vile inconstant toads.
Forgive what you can't excuse.
It's all been very interesting.
It has all been most interesting.
Life is too short for a long story
Life is too short for a long story.
One can never outlive one's vanity.
General notions are generally wrong.
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.
one would suffer a great deal to be happy.
Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.
Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.
To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.
A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.
In short I will part with anything for you but you.
True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.
Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.
Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.
Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.
The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.
to be reasonable one should never complain but when one hopes redress.
We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.
But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.
... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.
People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say.
As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.
The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.
I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.
As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!
Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.
'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.