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• The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth
• It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in…
• Our minds are lazier than our bodies.
• Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
• Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.
• The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.
• It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular
• The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
• It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character,…
• To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
• We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.
• Women know not the whole of their coquetry.

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