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 Dicta Philosophi.

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��COMPLAINER. ' I hate a complainer,' ii. 140. ' Complainers are always lond and clamorous,' ii. 20.

CONCEALMENT. 'Those who begin by concealment of innocent things will soon have something to hide which they dare not bring to light,' i. 326.

CONVERSATION. Do not be like the spider, man, and spin conversation thus incessantly out of thy own bowels,' i. 276. Why, Sir, his conversation does not show the minute hand, but he strikes the hour very correctly,' ii. 169.

CREAKED. ' When a door has creaked for a fortnight together, you may ob serve the master will scarcely give six pence to get it oiled/ i. 264.

D.

DEATH. When Death's pale horse runs away with persons on full speed an active physician may possibly give them a turn ; but if he carries them on an even slow pace, down hill too, no care nor skill can save them,' i. 276.

DECEPTION. * Sir, don't tell me of de ception ; a lie, Sir, is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear,' ii. 428.

DEGENERATING. ' To get cows from Alderney or waterfowl from China only to see nature degenerating round one is a poor ambition indeed,' i. 324.

DELICACY. c Delicacy does not surely consist in impossibility to be pleased,' i. 329.

DELICATE. 'If a wench wants a good gown do not give her a fine smelling- bottle because that is more delicate,' i. 326.

DESPISES. < No man thinks much of that which he despises,' ii. 245.

DIGNITY. ' Why, Madam, if a creature is neither capable of giving dignity to falsehood, nor is willing to remain contented with the truth, he deserves no better treatment,' i. 243.

��DINNER. ' A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek,' ii. ii.

DISGRACE. That dunce of a fellow helped forward the general disgrace of humanity,' i. 294.

DISLIKE. ' Lasting dislike is often the consequence of occasional disgust,' i. 246.

DIVERSION. You hunt in the morning and crowd to the public rooms at night, and call it diversion ; when your heart knows it is perishing with poverty of pleasures, and your wits get blunted for want of some other mind to sharpen them upon,' i. 324.

DOGMATISE. ' I dogmatise and am con tradicted, and in this conflict of opinions and sentiments I find delight/ ii. 92.

DONE. < Where there is nothing to be done something must be endured/ i. 210.

DOUBT. ' My dear, I must always doubt of that which has not yet happened/ ii. 207.

DWARF. ' Chesterfield ought to know me better than to think me capable of contracting myself into a dwarf that he may be thought a giant/ i. 405.

E.

EASE. ' Contented with the exchange of fame for ease he e'en resolves to let them set the pillows at his back, and gives no further proof of his existence than just to suck the jelly that prolongs it,' i. 282.

EYES. The eyes of the mind are like the eyes of the body, they can see but at such a distance. But because we cannot see beyond this point, is there nothing beyond it ? ' ii. 287.

F.

FEMALE. ' And this is the voice of female friendship, I suppose, when the hand of the hangman would be softer/ i.

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