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A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses. - [Certainty] A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company. - [Diet] A lie is an excuse guarded. - [Lies] A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low. - [Novels] A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith. - [Faith] A penny for your thought. - [Curiosity] A pleasant companion is as good as a coach. - [Companions] A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice. - [Avarice] A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones. - [Critics] Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination. - [Apothegms] All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenues. - [Pain : Pleasure] Although the Devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him. - [Falsehood] Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. - [Ambition] An atheist has got one point beyond the devil. - [Infidelity] An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever. - [Language] Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life. - [Despotism] Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading. - [Argument] As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. - [Blushes : Modesty] Brutes find out where their talents lie: a bear will not attempt to fly. - [Instinct] By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England. - [Freedom] Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter. - [Loquacity] Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives. - [Complaining] Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge. - [Conscience] Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency. - [Cowards] Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants. - [Genius] Displaying page 1 of 9 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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