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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

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If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

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The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

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Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

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Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

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The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

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I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Statesman

Born: September 22nd, 1694

Died: March 24th, 1773

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