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most imperceptible matters. A cunning spirit never goes straight, it

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La Fontaine giving, in one of his fables, "L'Homme et son Image," an

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or the abuse of their favourite defence, the barricade. In this battle,

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of the bitterest writer of English political satire to a great extent

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304.--We may forgive those who bore us, we cannot forgive those whom we

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insensible, and the evils she causes concealed; if we consider her

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words above quoted, "One of the works which most contributed to form the

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Rules for Conversation, R.V.

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friendship is, that it is insipid after having felt love.

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turn, is because they think themselves more clever than we are. (See

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inclination and temper it is dealing with, and by managing their

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the one and the other meet death with the same composure. Still there

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a little too much chin. I have just looked at myself in the glass to

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conform....Those things which honour forbids are more rigorously

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22.--Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but

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100.--Gallantry of mind is saying the most empty things in an agreeable

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of it after having taken it. (1665, No. 300.)

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Force of Mind, 30, 42, 237.

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Characteristics, p. 11, vol. I. "The very essence of gravity is design,

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complexion dark, but uniform, a high forehead; and of moderate height,

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of piety and honour, they are always to be seen through these veils.

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320.--To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is but to

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[The author corrected this maxim several times, in 1665 it is No.

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the predicate and the subject, and you at once form a contradictory

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Everyone seeks to find his pleasure and his advantage at the expense of

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293.--Moderation cannot claim the merit of opposing and overcoming

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divine, Bossuet. Whether that matchless eloquence or his own philosophic

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fortune also that makes the hero.

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most that any received were promises that were never performed. In after

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16.--This clemency of which they make a merit, arises oftentimes from

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nor she of the fickleness of her lover. (1665, No. 81.)

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294.--We always like those who admire us, we do not always like those

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were published. They form the third supplement to the translation. This

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[The Bouts-Rimes was a literary game popular in the 17th and 18th

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friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them, and we

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confidence. I am most particular as to my word, and I would never fail,

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295.--It is well that we know not all our wishes.

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this it does in a very astonishing manner; for not only does it so well

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By J. W. Willis Bund, M.A. LL.B and J. Hain Friswell

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to be observed, for we meet with no man who does all he would have done

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their caresses, and I do not feel great uneasiness in their absence.

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every subject that is agreeable to others, stopping where they wish, and

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of most as to the Maxims is confined to that most celebrated of all,

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["An absent man can make but few observations, he can pursue nothing

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it can do for us is to persuade us to avert our gaze and fix it on other

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Some persons have more wit than taste, others have more taste than wit.

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And he owned with a grin, That his favourite sin Is pride that apes

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succeed fails us more often than the means.

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despised death when they were ignorant of it, they dread it when they

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makes people agreeable or disagreeable.