• One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.
• Those who do not complain are never pitied.
• It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?
• From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
• A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
• It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
• How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
• ... as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
• ... the soul is of no sect, no party: it is, as you say, our passions and our prejudices, which give rise to our religious and political distinctions.
• You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.
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Quote collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis. Each quotation page in this collection and the entire collection © Jone Johnson Lewis 1997-2003. This is an informal collection assembled over many years. I regret that I am not be able to provide the original source if it is not listed with the quote.
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