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- Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to…
- I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
- Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
- In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid…
- Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases…
- Give Dayrolles a chair.
- Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it…
- Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness…
- If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
- Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays; give me the taste and the dressing
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