There is no kind of false Wit which has been so recommended by the Practice of all Ages, as that which consists in a Jingle of Wor...ds, and is comprehended under the general Name of Punning. It is indeed impossible to kill a Weed, which the Soil has a natural Disposition to produce. The seeds of Punning are in the Minds of all Men, and tho' they may be subdued by Reason, Reflection, and good Sense, they will be very apt to shoot up in the greatest Genius, that is not broken and cultivated by the Rules of Art. Imitation is natural to us, and when it does not raise the Mind to Poetry, Painting, Musick, or other more noble Arts, it often breaks out in Punns and Quibbles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeab...le, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the milliners, the ladies we met were so much dressed, that I should rather have imagined they were making visits than purchase...s. But what diverted me most was, that we were more frequently served by men than by women; and such men! so finical, so affected! they seemed to understand every part of a woman's dress better than we do ourselves; and they recommended caps and ribbons with an air of so much importance, that I wished to ask them how long they had left off wearing them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes pers...uaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yet, if the pupil be of a texture to bear it, the best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the... mobs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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Music and dancing (the more's the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultiva...ted classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Several moralists have recommended it as an excellent method of becoming acquainted with our own hearts, and knowing our progress ...in virtue, to recollect our dreams in a morning, and examine them with the same rigour that we would our most serious and most deliberate actions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these autho...rs. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »