| Quotes |
Topic |
| Satire | Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. |
| Sensuality | Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. |
| Shame | I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. |
| Slander | The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at. |
| Sweetness | Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. |
| Toasts | May you live all the days of your life. |
| Umbrellas | The tucked-up sempstress walks hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. |
| Vision | Vision, the art of seeing things invisible. |
| Want | The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. |
| Wealth | If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. |
| Wishes | I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood. |
| Worth | It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first. |
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