“Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.”
Knowledge“Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.”
Imagination“Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.”
Knowledge“A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.”
Great“Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.”
Happiness“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
Patriotism“I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.”
Government“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.”
Time“Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.”
Society“There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.”
Happiness“It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.”
Truth“Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.”
Great“Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.”
Great“The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.”
Friendship“Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.”
Success“Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.”
Money“All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.”
Experience“Exercise is labor without weariness.”
Fitness“It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.”
Equality“All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.”
Great“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.”
Happiness“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.”
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