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Authors of the 18th century

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68 authors

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Various
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
PoetGerman1749 · 18th century
4.8 · 29 votes · 158 reads
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Society
A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.
Samuel Johnson
AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century
3.1 · 32 votes · 139 reads
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Virtues
A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
Benjamin Franklin
PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century
3.8 · 20 votes · 27 reads
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Various
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas Carlyle
WriterBritish1795 · 18th century
4.0 · 15 votes · 51 reads
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Art and Culture
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.
Lord Byron
PoetBritish1788 · 18th century
3.5 · 50 votes · 11 reads
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Defects
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
Charles Caleb Colton
AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century
4.8 · 49 votes · 161 reads
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Art and Culture
A book that is shut is but a block.
Thomas de Quincey
AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century
3.6 · 56 votes · 67 reads
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Nature
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
William Hazlitt
EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century
4.6 · 13 votes · 146 reads
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Art and Culture
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again.
Alexander Pope
PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century
3.2 · 38 votes · 107 reads
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Art and Culture
A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century
3.2 · 59 votes · 85 reads
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