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Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments. - [Laughter] Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet. - [Nobility] Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them are rarer. - [Opportunity] Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. - [Gossip] Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater. - [Opinion] Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will. - [Praise] Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless. - [Necessity] Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts. - [Peace] Pedantry is paraded knowledge. - [Pedantry] Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent. - [Ancestry] People travel to learn; most of them before they start should learn to travel. - [Travel] People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking. - [Talking] Perseverance is king. - [Perseverance] Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince. - [Politeness] Poverty is the stepmother of genius. - [Poverty] Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin. - [Prejudice] Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks. - [Prejudice] Pride seems to be equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem to have it just alike. - [Pride] Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins. - [Rivalry] Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up. - [Rumor] Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them. - [Rumor] Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel. - [Satire] Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job. - [Conceit] Selfish people, with no heart to speak of, have the best time of it. - [Indifference] Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates. - [Wealth] Displaying page 3 of 5 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5
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