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"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." Experience, Honesty, Truth Rate this Quote
"Ridicule is the best test of truth." Honesty, Truth Rate this Quote
"Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one." Learning 5.00 average rating Rate this Quote
"The more one works, the more willing one is to work." Miscellaneous Rate this Quote
"I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves." Men 4.40 average rating Rate this Quote
"Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them." Books, Death, Knowledge 4.20 average rating Rate this Quote
"In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge." Men, Religion Rate this Quote
"The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable." Ability, Men 4.87 average rating Rate this Quote
"Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so." Knowledge, Wisdom 5.00 average rating Rate this Quote
"Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies." Ability, Anger, Forgiveness 5.00 average rating Rate this Quote
"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones." Excellence 5.00 average rating Rate this Quote
"The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older." Age, Art, Excellence Rate this Quote
"Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial." Happiness, Joy, Men Rate this Quote


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