"There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of."
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"It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young."
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"There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us."
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"Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us."
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"Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill."
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"Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself."
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"We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire."
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does."
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"The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark."
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"Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm."
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"We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others."
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"We have more indolence in the mind than in the body."
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"Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind."
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"Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit."
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"Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality."
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"Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit."
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"Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful."
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"Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it."
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"Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck."
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