The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents...

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents...

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

My garden, like my life, seems to me every year to want correction and require...

My garden, like my life, seems to me every year to want correction and require...

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is...

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is...

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know. Make use of every friend and every...

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know. Make use of every friend and every...

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but...

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but...

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have...

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have...

Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

Good God! How often are we to die before we go quite off this stage?...

Good God! How often are we to die before we go quite off this stage?...

'Tis true, perfection none must hope to find in all the world, much less in...

'Tis true, perfection none must hope to find in all the world, much less in...

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in...

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in...

Honor and shame from no condition rise; act well your part, there all the honor...

Honor and shame from no condition rise; act well your part, there all the honor...

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; all chance, direction, which thou canst not...

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; all chance, direction, which thou canst not...

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have...

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have...

A little learning is a dangerous thing;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

A little learning is a dangerous thing;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price...

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price...

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.