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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. - [Talking] A night of fretful passion may consume All that thou bast of beauty's gentle bloom; And one distemper'd hour of sordid fear Print on thy brow the wrinkles of a year. - [Gambling] Be just before you are generous. - [Generosity] Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. - [Conscience] Darkness is fled. Now flowers unfold their beauties to the sun, and blushing kiss the beam he sends to wake them. - [Morning] Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition. - [Fame] Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth. - [Happiness] Humanity always becomes a conqueror. - [Humanity] If a daughter you have, she's the plague of your life, No peace shall you know though you've buried your wife! At twenty she mocks at the duty you taught her-- Oh, what a plague is an obstinate daughter! - [Daughters] Is she not a wilderness of faults and follies? - [Faults] It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men. - [Influence] Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface. - [Faith] Our memories are independent of our wills. - [Memory] Remember, now, when you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild, agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword. - [Courage] Tale-bearers, as I said before, are just as bad as the tale-makers. - [Gossip] The argument of the weak. - [Necessity] The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed. - [Judgment] The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. - attributed to, in report of a "Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas" [Memory] The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. - [Success] There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. - [Wit] Though sinking in decrepit age, he prematurely falls whose memory records no benefit conferred on him by man. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. - [Age] To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief. - [Jesting] Where they do agree on the stage, then unanimity is wonderful. - [Acting] Wit loses its respect with the good when seen in company with malice; and to smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief. - [Jesting] You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading. - Clio's Protest, see Moore's "Life of Sheridan", vol. I, p. 55 [Pen] Displaying page 1 of 3 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3
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