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Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

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Life is too short for a long story.

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Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.

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Solitude begets whimsies.

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The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

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While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

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I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

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Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

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We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: May 26th, 1689

Died: August 21st, 1762

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