If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.

Dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

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Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

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There is no pleasure to me without communication; there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind but I grieve that I have no one to tell it to.

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It is good to rub and polish our brains against that of others.

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.