Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

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A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

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Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

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The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Joseph Addison in The Spectator (26 September 1712)
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