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- Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.
- Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances.
- Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.
- Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.
- Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have…
- Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
- We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.
- Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.
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