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Topic |
| Literature | The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. |
| London | London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state. |
| Lying | Round numbers are always false. |
| Lying | A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be known. |
| Memory | The true art of memory is the art of attention. |
| Mob | Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob. |
| Music | Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. |
| Music | Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice. |
| Nature | He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life away in fruitless efforts. |
| Neglect | He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. |
| Novelty | All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance. |
| Obscurity | Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind. |
| Occupations | And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd. |
| Optimism | The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year. |
| Pain | He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. |
| Patience | For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill. |
| Patriotism | Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. |
| Patriotism | That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the runs of Iona. |
| Perfection | It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. |
| Perspective | Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. |
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