Statesman Quotes

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
Take the tone of the company you are in.
The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
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