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Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

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Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

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Live always in the best company when you read.

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Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.

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I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

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What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

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Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.

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Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Clergyman

Born: June 3rd, 1771

Died: February 22nd, 1845

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