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Topic |
| Ability | When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them. |
| Absurdity | Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. |
| Absurdity | Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. |
| Achievement | Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. |
| Acting | The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live. |
| Anticipation | Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. |
| Apparel | Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect. |
| Applause | The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. |
| Argument | I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. |
| Bribery | But here more slow, where all are slaves to gold, Where looks are merchandise, and smiles are sold. |
| Bribery | Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes. |
| Charity | He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything. |
| Charm | There are charms made only for distant admiration. |
| Cliches and One Liners | Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. |
| Complaint | The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. |
| Compromise | Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. |
| Contrast | The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little. |
| Contrast | The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue. |
| Conversation | Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. |
| Conversation | Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties. |
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