But Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England.
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To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.Samuel Johnson
Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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Of literary criticism You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.
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It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first.
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