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them or suits our condition or qualities.

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shed for the living. I affirm 'tis a kind of hypocrisy which in these

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ornamenting a book. This little collection was read with avidity, it

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of the different kinds of mind meet together in the "Bel Esprit." Yet as

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omitted in the last edition of the book, published in Rochefoucauld's

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grey hairs make folly venerable, and is there no period to be reserved

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["The reason why the Cardinal (Mazarin) deferred so long to grant the

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The person asking seems to pay deference to the opinion of his friend,

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54.--The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to

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life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others are

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Augustus and Anthony, which is set down to the ambition they entertained

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his wife, at the very place where, some six centuries previously, his

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The fifth duke, banished from Court by Louis XV., became the friend of

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["In love we all are fools alike."--Gay{, The Beggar's Opera, (1728),

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last we are disguised to ourselves.

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The third count, after serving with distinction under the Duke of

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name a household word.

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flatly refused. Disappointment gave rise to anger, and uniting with

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perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering

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467.--Vanity makes us sin more against our taste than reason.

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will not suffer in an attack of the rudest of trials. It is equally as

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Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

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image reflected in the water. He thus applies his fable:-- "Je parle

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pretty unless young.

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le premier sentiment du coeur renverse tous ses projets. Mais il

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VII. On Air and Manner.

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421.--Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

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carefully avoid having any. It is a passion that is wholly worthless in

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believes to be the amusement of persons with whom he wishes to live, but

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us from benefits received, but which also, by making a return to our

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everyone turns as he pleases. (See Maxim 382.)

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in storming the village of Neerwinden on the day when William III. was

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know their own faults and only know their neighbours', that read and

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["The proud are ever most provoked by pride."--Cowper, Conversation

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that it is not shared by those who listen.

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removed from real defects as from substantial qualities.

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writers--in England certainly we cannot. Our most celebrated, Lord

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391.--Fortune appears so blind to none as to those to whom she has done

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accounted for, from the fact that most of the translations are taken

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[Ut alios industria ita hunc ignavia protulerat ad famam, habebaturque

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192.--When our vices leave us we flatter ourselves with the idea we have

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truly love once, the first time; the subsequent passions are more or

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We should not speak of all subjects in one tone and in the same manner.

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its suppleness is beyond description; its changes surpass those of the

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XXV.--Sobriety is the love of health, or an incapacity to eat much.

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time for his reckoning with Richelieu; speculating on the King's death,

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they love no longer.

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fefellerunt."--Pliny{ the Younger, Panegyricus, LXII}.]

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consent, that in following the opinion of our friends they should

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rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never