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From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.
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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.
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Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.
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I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
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Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.
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