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A lofty birth or a large fortu...

A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.

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It is difficult for a proud ma...

It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining of him; his pride is not assuaged till he has regained the advantages he lost and put the other person in the wrong.

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How many men are like trees, a...

How many men are like trees, already strong and full grown, which are transplanted into some gardens, to the astonishment of those people who behold them in these fine spots, where they never saw them grow, and who neither know their beginning nor their progress!

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The highest reach of a news-wr...

The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.

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The News-writer lies down at N...

The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw away as soon as he awakes.

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The greatest part of mankind e...

The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.

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Children are contemptuous, hau...

Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.

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There is a false modesty, whic...

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

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Let us not envy some men their...

Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor and conscience, to obtain them: It is to pay so dear from them that the bargain is a loss.

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The noblest deeds are well eno...

The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.

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How happy the station which ev...

How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!

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It is easier to enrich ourselv...

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

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A man who knows the court is m...

A man who knows the court is master of his gestures, of his eyes and of his face; he is profound, impenetratable; he dissimulates bad offices, smiles at his enemies, controls his irritation, disguises his passions, belies his heartm speaks and acts against his feelings.

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The reason that women do not l...

The reason that women do not love one another is - men.

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Children enjoy the present bec...

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

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There are only two ways by whi...

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

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It is because of men that wome...

It is because of men that women dislike one another.

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That man is good who does good...

That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.

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Outward simplicity befits ordi...

Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.

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A coxcomb is one whom simpleto...

A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.

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