“Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.”
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.