Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.

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Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

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Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or... of something else.

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I pay very little regard... to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

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