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they still follow. Some have a doubtful taste, and let chance decide,

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lived best interprets his maxims.]

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disturbs and destroys society. We should discover a means to hide this

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difficult to say. I have black hair, which curls by nature, and thick

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142.--As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few

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hides half its understanding, and when it meets with an opinionated man

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500.--Some people are so self-occupied that when in love they find a

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the complaints and reproaches of his friends, a little piety, some

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shortest way to arrive at its aim, taking usury under the pretext of

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209.--Who lives without folly is not so wise as he thinks.

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166.--The world oftener rewards the appearance of merit than merit

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420.--We often believe we have constancy in misfortune when we have

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praise which is treacherous.

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["Praise undeserved is satire in disguise," quoted by Pope from a poem

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"I have ability. I have no hesitation in saying it, as for what purpose

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mind and heart as on the tongue. (Repitition Of Maxim 342.)

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363.--The evils we do to others give us less pain than those we do to

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the nation, and to diffuse a spirit of justice and precision, is the

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opposed to us--and yet 'tis only to make these men decide in our favour

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divides his life into four periods, first, from his birth till he was

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----, women, 368, XCVI.

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our friends in exposing ourselves, not to draw upon their goodness to

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being his rival. He was clever enough, however, to take advantage of

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contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.

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despising ordinary conversation, talked incessantly of literature; but

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Expression, refined, R.V.

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friendship, whatever pains he may be at to appear taken up with the one

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The expression "Bel Esprit" is much perverted, for all that one can say

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an attempt, the final attempt, to recover their lost influence over the

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["Still to ourselves in every place consigned Our own felicity we make

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a secret chain, and a regulated order of all time by Providence, which

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187.--The name of virtue is as useful to our interest as that of vice.

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455.--However disposed the world may be to judge wrongly, it far oftener

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Boredom, 141, 304, 352. SEE Ennui.

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be responsible for his conduct. The person giving the advice returns the

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[Seneca says "Innocentem quisque se dicit respiciens testem non

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ancient Dukes of Guienne, the founder of the Family Fulk or Foucauld, a

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[The 1st edition, 1665, preserves the image perhaps better--"however

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Nemours, reinstated in favour, but in this he did not succeed. The Duc

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189.--It seems that nature has at man's birth fixed the bounds of his

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436.--It is far easier to know men than to know man.

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243.--Few things are impossible in themselves; application to make them

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speak as freely as I can of my good qualities, nor sincerity to freely

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[The last clause is added from Edition of 1665.]

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157.--The fame of great men ought always to be estimated by the means

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in the dullest matters, and places its pride in the most contemptible.

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destined to be the one motive of his actions. The Duchesse was engaged

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above of myself is not far from the real case. I shall use the same

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159.--It is not enough to have great qualities, we should also have the

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"And the devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes