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• There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe…
• In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man;…
• I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him; but…
• Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.
• How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river…
• No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.
• Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to…
• Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
• If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
• Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
• A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and…
• As a man advances in life he gets what is better than admiration -judgement to estimate things at their own value.
• Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.
• It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
• Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
• A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.
• Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.
• Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions to…
• To do something is in every man's power.
• Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.
• A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.
• The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
• Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
• Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.
• No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

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