Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
Books, the children of the brain.
A college joke to cure the dumps.
Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.
'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.