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-------- in love, 331, 381, C.

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and consequently deceit; a taught trick to gain credit with the world

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perfectly which is out of itself; and in this it resembles our eyes

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the Queen, who had shown herself so ungrateful to her too ambitious

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"I love my friends; and I love them to such an extent that I would not

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objects. Cato and Brutus each selected noble ones. A lackey sometime

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virtues disgrace them.

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by itself that its desires are inflamed, rather than by the beauty and

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["Ambition has been so strong as to make very miserable men take comfort

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361, 371, 374, 385, 395, 396, 402, 417, 418, 422,

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picture, delineated by the man who was his bitterest enemy, and whom (we

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This preface was omitted in the subsequent editions. The first edition

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preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the

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Benefactors, 96, 317, CXXII.

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is too seldom to be met with except in regard to matters that do not

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429.--Women who love, pardon more readily great indiscretions than

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We are fortunately in possession of materials such as rarely exist to

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263.--What we call liberality is often but the vanity of giving, which

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45.--The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of

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wit cannot please for long unless they can take different roads, and not

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should be placed on all. Our knowledge is too limited, and that correct

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service to Francis and his predecessors.

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business, and who know how to turn everything to their own advantage.

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428.--We easily forgive in our friends those faults we do not perceive.

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a narrow one. A mind may be fitted for some things, not for others. We

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I despise them, although I am not at all given to do so. My gestures are

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Covetousness, opposed to Reason, 469

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103, MS., fol. 310.*)

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him who most flatters us. (1665, No. 157.)

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Rochefoucauld's life, we shall never understand his maxims. The bitter

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134.--We are never so ridiculous from the habits we have as from those

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297.--Bodily temperaments have a common course and rule which

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474.--There are few women whose charm survives their beauty.

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REFLECTIONS; OR SENTENCES AND MORAL MAXIMS

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her favours upon those she hated; her friends were forgotten.--Aime

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["Rather bear th{ose} ills we have Than fly to others that we know not

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praised for our good deeds.

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followed. Rochefoucauld defended the town with the greatest bravery,

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stamp, {The} man's {the gowd} for a' that." Also Farquhar and other

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dulness and, as it were, death, with which we afflict those to whom we

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"Life is no more than a dramatic scene, in which the hero should

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490.--We often go from love to ambition, but we never return from

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["With that low cunning which in fools supplies, And amply, too, the

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published during the author's life, and the last which received his

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211.--There are people who are like farces, which are praised but for a

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327.--We own to small faults to persuade others that we have not great

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["Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering,

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Farces, men compared to, 211.

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himself in composing an account of his early life, called his "Memoirs,"

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of view from which it should be regarded. It is quite right that it