Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.

The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks.

People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.

Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.

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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.