“Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.”
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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.