Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
Promises and Pye-Crusts - are made to be broken
Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.
Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth
She wears her clothes as if they are thrown on with a pitchfork
So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns
So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.
So, naturalists observe, a flea - Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum
Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion
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