In private life he was good-natured, chearful, social; inelegant in his manners, loose in his morals. He had a coarse, strong wit,
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He degraded himself by the vice of drinking, which, together with a great stock of Greek and Latin, he brought away with him from
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The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young
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Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected there
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child;
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It is commonly said ... that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny it. A tru
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If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not f
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Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as
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