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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.
You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.
If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.
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