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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul, for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Conscience--the only incorruptible thing about us.

So when two dogs are fighting in the streets, When a third dog one of the two dogs meets: With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough: I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England's roast beef.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

Illustrious predecessors.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart. -Henry Fielding.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business, To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.

None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in the community . . . the Mob.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Republic of letters.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

The modesty's a candle to thy merit.