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• What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.
• The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
• A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
• So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
• Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?
• People can commend the weather without envy.
• Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it…
• A fool and his words are soon parted.
• Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
• Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
• I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and…
• There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

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