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• A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
• There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who…
• What is reading but silent conversation?
• Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
• Great men always pay deference to greater.
• Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
• An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
• Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our…
• Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
• Cats like men are flatterers.
• The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
• Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

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