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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

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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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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.
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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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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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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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