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We should observe the place, the occasion, the temper in which we find

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9.--The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which

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trade in which self love always expects to gain something.

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69.--If there is a pure love, exempt from the mixture of our other

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power attentively we shall find that in all encounters she makes herself

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though no longer for the pleasures.

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met with. I hold his wit and accomplishments as nothing in comparison."

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well concealed as its designs, nothing so skilful as its management;

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486.--More persons exist without self-love than without envy.

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itself either to things or to the want of them; it goes over to

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"As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From Nature--I believe them true. They

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Praise, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 272, 356,

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siege of Cassel. The Court of Louis XIII. was then ruled imperiously

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what value they will, and one is forced to receive them according to

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increase the number by certain peculiar qualities that they affect to

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because much has been said."-- Junius, Jan. 1769.]

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198.--We exaggerate the glory of some men to detract from that of

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387.--A fool has not stuff in him to be good.

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35.--Pride is much the same in all men, the only difference is the

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by epigrams," like most epigrammatic sentences, contains some truth,

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--------, Mode of, XLVIII, R.V.

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82.--Reconciliation with our enemies is but a desire to better our

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A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable,

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and possesses my mind so strongly that for the greater part of my time

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336.--There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.

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an attraction for us, and the taste that makes us understand and

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that it is sometimes pleasing in society.

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them such true views as to make them suppress or disguise the smallest

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305.--Interest which is accused of all our misdeeds often should be

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There is a kind of refined and flattering raillery that only hits the

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Rochefoucauld met, and soon became intimate, and for a time she was

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method and manner of showing it.

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flirting with others. (16{74}, No. 372.)

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and the favours he would then receive from the Queen. During this period

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or comprehend greater ones, which in another sense has never been his

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After so many varied opinions he then pleases us more and seems far

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with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

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to their merit, a deposit we commit to their trust, a pledge which

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Times for speaking, R.V.

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268.--We credit judges with the meanest motives, and yet we desire our

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believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

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see themselves as they really are; to some is given a true understanding

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capacity. Some have peculiar taste, which they know to be bad, but which

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Application, 41, 243.

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392.--We should manage fortune like our health, enjoy it when it is

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illumine only the track it has passed."-- Coleridge.]

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in the meantime bring you so well acquainted with them as Le Duc de la

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So Junius, writing to the Duke of Grafton, says, "You have done as much

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love. This confusion destroys the unity of his principle.--Aime Martin.]

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more prudence and reticence, and we are not always free to give it. It