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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

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All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

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Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?

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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

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A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

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People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: August 19th, 1689

Died: July 4th, 1761

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