What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s

The business of life is to go forward.

Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England!

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

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Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.