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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

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So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

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It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: September 18th, 1709

Died: December 13th, 1784

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