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Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.
A fool and his words are soon parted.
Love can be founded upon Nature only.
Love is a pleasing but a various clime.
Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.
Nothing is certain in London but expense.
Nothing is sure in London, except expense.
People can commend the weather without envy.
I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.
Theirs is the present who can praise the past.
Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.
The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.
Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.
I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.
Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.
Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.
Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?
There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.
My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.
Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.
May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.
Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.
A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.
Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.
A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.
A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind.
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.
Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.
A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.
Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.
Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.
Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.
Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.
I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.
Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.