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| The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. | [▲] | [▼] |
| A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick... | [▲] | [▼] |
| When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must behighly gratifying to them. | [▲] | [▼] |