"Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face."
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"Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended."
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"The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune."
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"Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance."
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"Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves."
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"We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them."
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"Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind."
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"It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend."
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"If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources."
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"What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love."
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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."
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"The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them."
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"Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being."
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"The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it."
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"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."
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"We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices."
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"We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation."
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"Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference."
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"We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire."
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"Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner."
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