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I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
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Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
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Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
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To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
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Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
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For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
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Those that vow the most are the least sincere.
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The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.
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Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
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