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- "When
children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief."
- "There
is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible
animal, than a proud clergyman. "
- "It
is not death, but dying, which is terrible."
- "Guilt
has very quick ears to an accusation."
- "Love
and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."
- "Some
folks rail against other folks, because other folks have
what some folks would be glad of."
- "There
is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which
teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and
vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable
doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely,
that it is not true."
- "There
is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much
as her having more sense than himself."
- "It
is not death, but dying, which is terrible."
- "Some
folks rail against other folks, because other folks have
what some folks would be glad of."
- "Great
joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances,
is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than
on the tongue."
- "All
Nature wears one universal grin."
Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 1.
- "When
I 'm not thank'd at all, I 'm thank'd enough;
I 've done my duty, and I 've done no more.
- "Penny
saved is a penny got."
The Miser. Act iii. Sc. 12.
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