Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from…

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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Before marriage a woman is pensive, after marriage, expensive

Before marriage a woman is pensive, after marriage, expensive

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge,...

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge,...

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes...

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes...

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness

Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted...

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted...

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

The man whose genius qualifies him for great undertakings must at least be content to...

The man whose genius qualifies him for great undertakings must at least be content to...

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread...

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread...

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong...

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong...

To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is...

To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is...

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them...

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them...

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavours to appropriate the esteem or...

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavours to appropriate the esteem or...

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly...

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly...

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...

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that...

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that...

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars...

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars...

Morality is only for the middle class, sweet. The lower class can't afford it, and...

Morality is only for the middle class, sweet. The lower class can't afford it, and...

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion