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"Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them."
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"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."

"The power of imagination is a miracle."
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"The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity."


"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."


"It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached."


"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."


"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."


"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."
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