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Lord of
turns justify maxims
Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
book reading editors
Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.
business men people
No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.
horse fun laughter
Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.
inferiority your-best-friend enjoy
Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
mind suffering body
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
men light may
It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny it. A truth learned in a certain light, and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humor, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far, that the truth is only remembered and repeated for the sake of the ridicule.
work society willing
The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
country men practice
The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.
men order secret
There are some occasions when a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest.
laughing gentleman heard
A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.
inspirational funny fathers-day
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
character cleanliness clean
Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
suicide men may
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.