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• Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
• There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her…
• Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
• Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.
• No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.
• They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
• There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
• Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
• We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.
• It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.
• The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
• What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

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