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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

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There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

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There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

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The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

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We must be doing something to be happy.

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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

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The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

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The public have neither shame or gratitude.

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There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

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If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

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Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

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Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

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Those who can command themselves command others.

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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

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The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

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Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

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Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

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Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

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A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

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