an exquisite relish.--_Berkeley_.

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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for if a man cannot
attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of
them shorter.--_Cowley_.

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Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the
ground, and fetters them from moving.--_Montaigne_.

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When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I
sometimes say to myself, that, were the offer made true, I would engage to
run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask,
should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition,
certain errors of the first.--_Franklin's Life_.

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I do not call him a poet that writes for his own diversion, any more than
that gentleman a fiddler who amuses himself with a violin.--_Swift_.

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Pleasure of meat, drink, clothes, &c., are forbidden those that know not
how to use them; just as nurses cry pah! when they see a knife in a