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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections

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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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Both Infinite Numberless Pas Perpetual Reveries Vanities
Look what a little vain dust we are!
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Dust Little Look Visible
An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Action Evil Intention Make Prevent Sin
The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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Flattery Listener Person Skillful
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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Comfort Consider Honor Old Remember Time Years Young
True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
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Animal Capable Compassion Creature Distress Philanthropy Sympathize
I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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Country Latin Meet Met Old Passage Upon Wonderfully
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Aloud Best Friend Friendship Thinking
They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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Funny Know Money People Primitive Work
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Beauty Directly Inspirational More Soul
The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Know Knowledge Literature Men Nothing Utmost
Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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Appear Attend Began Diligently Down Face Forget Happen Lomg Person Seldom
A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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Assault Character Dream Good Habit Impregnable Iron
It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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Astonishment Competition Debate FAction Mankind Reflect Sorrow
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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Become Blacken Cuttlefish Disputant Himself Invisible Mind Unable Water

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