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 Dicta Philosophi.

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��FOLIO. ' No man reads long together with a folio on his table,' ii. 2.

FORGOTTEN. ' I hope the day will never arrive when I shall be the object of neither calumny nor ridicule, for then I shall be neglected and forgotten,' ii. 420.

FRIENDS. ' We must either outlive our friends or our friends must outlive us ; and I see no man that would hesitate about the choice,' i. 230.

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GAIETY. * Those who resist gaiety will be likely for the most part to fall a sacrifice to appetite,' i. 219.

GENIUS. 'Never ask a baby of seven years old which way his genius leads him, when we all know that a boy of seven years old has no genius for any thing except a peg-top and an apple- pie,' i. 314.

GUINEAS. ' Why did not the King make these halfpence guineas ? ' i. 172.

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HELL. ' I do allow him just enough \lumilres\ to light him to hell/ i.

211.

HOARDING. ' A fellow must do some thing ; and what so easy to a narrow mind as hoarding halfpence till they turn into sixpences?' i. 251.

HONOUR. ' Well, Sir ; if you do not see the honour I am sure I feel the dis grace,' i. 285.

HOPE. 'Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and is adapted to none but very tranquil minds,' i. 278.

HUNTING. 'Hunting is the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England/ ii. 170.

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IGNORANCE. ' Ignorance to a wealthy lad of one-and-twenty is only so much fat to a sick sheep ; it just serves to call the rooks about him/ i. 281.

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��LACED. ' If every man who wears a laced coat, that he can pay for, was extirpated, who would miss them ? ' i. 253.

LIFE. ' Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding ; yet for the poor we delight in strip ping it still barer, and are not ashamed to show even visible displeasure if ever the bitter taste is taken from their mouths/ i. 205 ; ' Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content him self with such as his senses can afford/ i. 251 ; 'Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings ; let us therefore be cautious how we strip her/ i. 345.

LITERATURE. ' A mere literary man is a dull man ; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man ; but when literature and commerce are united they make a respectable man/ ii. 389.

LONDON. ' W 7 hoever has once experi enced the full flow of London talk, when he retires to country friendships and rural sports, must either be con tented to turn baby again and play with the rattle, or he will pine away like a great fish in a little pond, and die for want of his usual food/ i. 324.

LOVE. ' Love is the wisdom of a fool and the folly of the wise/ ii. 393.

LOVER. ' The companion of the easy vacant hour, whose compliance with a girl's opinions can flatter her vanity, and whose conversation can just soothe, without ever stretching her mind, that is the lover to be feared/ i. 220.

LUXURIOUS. ' Depend upon it, Sir, every state of society is as luxurious as it can be/ ii. 97.

LUMPS. ' One cannot love lumps of flesh, andlittle infants are nothing more/ i. 328.

M. MAD. 'Five hours of the four and

twenty unemployed are enough for a

man to go mad in/ i. 301. MANNER. 'A new manner of writing!

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