Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

I loved him for himself alone.

Be just before you are generous.

A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.

Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.

Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.