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James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Mackenzie

Delusive ideas are the motives of the greatest part of mankind, and a heated imagination the power by which their actions are incited. The world in the eye of a philosopher may be said to be a large madhouse.

Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts.

People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draft upon heaven for those who choose to have their money placed to account there.

We are content with personating happiness—to feel it is an art beyond us.