One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
JOSEPH ADDISONOne may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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