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Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

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Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

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Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

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The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

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In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

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There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

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I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

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Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Statesman

Born: September 22nd, 1694

Died: March 24th, 1773

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