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Action (n.) must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
A Bed (n.) is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
The City (n.) improves one's talents but impairs one's virtues. It strengthens their minds, but weakens their morals.
The City (n.) is where you know but are not known... the village is where you do not know but are known.
Corruption (n.) is like a ball of snow; once set-arolling, it must increase.
Criticism (n.) is like champagne: nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.
Eloquence (n.) is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools... but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
Friendship (n.) is like sound health... the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
A House (n.) may may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
Marriage (n.) is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.