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There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

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The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

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Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

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Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

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To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

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No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

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We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

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The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

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Rules and models destroy genius and art.

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Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.

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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

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To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

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We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

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The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

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It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

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Dandyism is a variety of genius.

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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

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Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

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If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

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Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

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The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

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