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There may be nothing new under and including the sun; but it looks fresh every morning, and we rise with it to toil, hope, scheme, laugh, struggle, love,...
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were bores, ill-bred persons, and detractors even in Athens, of a species remarkably corresponding to the English, and not yet made endurable by being...
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Scandal, like other virtues, is in part its own reward, as it gives us the satisfaction of making ourselves appear better than others, or others no better...
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and thinks Noah's flood the greatest plague that ever was, not because it drowned the world, but spoyl'd the grasse.
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translation of The Characters of Theophrastus is intended not for the narrow circle of classical philologists, but for the larger body of cultivated persons...
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guests at a banquet he is the first to praise the wine and, doing it ample justice, he observes : " What a fine cuisine you have! " He takes a bit from...
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furnished from his supplies. If a marriage is announced in a friend's family, he goes away a little beforehand, to avoid sending a wedding present. He...
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frequent shows, and so he avoids tuition fees. If he receives coppers from a slave who has been serving out, he demands in addition the exchange value...
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to keep the servants from taking them. If he goes abroad with friends, he uses their servants and hires his own out; yet he does not contribute to the...
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may define a bore as a man who cannot refrain from talking. A bore is the sort of fellow who, the moment you open your mouth, tells you that your remarks...
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