Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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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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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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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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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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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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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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