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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

How guilt once harbour'd in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

"He was a very good hater."

I like a good hater.

Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.

Anecdotes are the gleaming toys of history. The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern of inn.

Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.