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Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
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They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.
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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
[ Equality ]
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It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
[ Equality ]
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.
[ Complaining ]
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food and commonly better company.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
[ Integrity ]
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You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
[ Charity ]
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
[ Charity ]
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
[ Things ]
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He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
[ Quotations ]
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Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.
[ Solitude ]
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Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.
[ Debt ]
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If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
[ Persuasion ]
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Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
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Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.
[ Respectability ]
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A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
[ Respectability ]
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