A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.
Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.
Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.