Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

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To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to...

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to...

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing...

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing...

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch...

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch...

The woman that deliberates is lost.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed...

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed...

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness...

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness...

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long...

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long...

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of...

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of...

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not...

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not...

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills...

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills...

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

Nature uses extraordinarily ingenious techniques to avoid conflict and competition, and that cooperation is extraordinarily...

Nature uses extraordinarily ingenious techniques to avoid conflict and competition, and that cooperation is extraordinarily...

Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity

Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity

He thought he was a wit, and he was half right.

He thought he was a wit, and he was half right.

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey...

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey...