Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. — Quoted

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“Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.”

Lord Chesterfield · Health

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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

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If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

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The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

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