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• The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;…
• Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
• The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;…
• Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
• The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show…
• First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them…
• A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.
• It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or…

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