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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
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The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
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The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
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Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
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It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
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We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
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