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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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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
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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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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.
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Nothing that isn’t a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
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