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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

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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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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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Jesters do often prove prophets.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck.
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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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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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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