I was ever of opinion that the honest man, who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

Sir Joshua Reynolds told how he once visited Goldsmith and found the poet kicking a masquerade costume round the floor. (Introduction)

There are an hundred faults in this Thing, and an hundred things that might be said to prove them beauties. (Advertisement)

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The jewels of truth have been so imported by others, that nothing was left for me to import but some splendid things that, at a distance, looked every bit as well.

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.

However, when any one of our relations was found to be a person of very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house, I ever took care to lend him a riding coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.

The pain which conscience gives the man who has already done wrong is soon got over. Conscience is a coward; and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

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Scott, Sir Walter

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