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Being in a ship is

Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
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Golf is a game in

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
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You must have taken great

You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.
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No place affords a more

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
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The Irish are a fair

The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another
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I hate mankind, for I

I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
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There will always be a

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
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Such is the common process

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.
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There is no observation more

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.
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Men are generally idle, and

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
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