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Fear (n.) is tasked, like that of other passions, not to overbear reason, but to assist it.
Fear (n.) naturally quickens the flight of guilt.
Fear (n.) is implanted in us as a preservative from evil.
Wine (n.) makes man mistake words for thoughts.
Wine (n.) makes a man better pleased with himself, though perhaps not more pleasing to others.
Wine (n.) is all fine and good, but one of its main disadvantages is that it makes a man mistake words for thought.
Praise (n.) is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Praise (n.) is a limited resource. He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Praise (n.) is so pleasing to the mind of man that it is the original motive of almost all our actions.
Exercise (n.) is labor without weariness.
A Manuscript (n.) is all-too-often both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
The Cucumber (n.) is prepared properly in this fashion: it should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.
Love (n.) is like being enlivened with champagne while friendship is like being comfortably filled with roast beef.
Love (n.) is distinguished from friendship in that friendship is like being comfortably filled with roast beef while love is like being enlivened with champagne.
Love (n.) is the wisdom of the fool, and the folly of the wise.
Life (n.) is like every other blessing in that it derives its value from its use alone.
Life (n.) is inevitable, adn there is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
Life (n.) is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.
Life (n.) is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy bis wealth the better.
Life (n.) is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Life (n.) is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Marriage (n.) is not done from reason and prudence, but from inclination.
Marriage (n.) is a condition when there are many pains - in 'contrast to celibacy which has no pleasures.
Marriage (n.) is the best state for man in general ; and every man is a worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the married state.
Marriage (n.) is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity : and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.
Marriage (n.) is worth it — Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.