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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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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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The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.
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Encourage innocent amusement.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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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 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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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.
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