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["No," says a commentator, "Ridicule may do harm, but it cannot

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hard fate of losing their friendship, which is dear to us, or of being

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more, though I am still young. I have renounced all flirtation, and I am

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estimate of their value. But speaking generally there are few who have

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arise in him from the wealth of his imagination, for that was anything

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Imitation, 230, XLIV, R.V.

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with France; but unfortunately his brilliant genius was spent in the

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the variations are not worth quoting.]

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Obstinacy, 234, 424.

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the philosopher Voltaire.

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{TRANSCRIBERS NOTES: spelling variants are preserved (e.g. labour

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envy we bear to those who are established.

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Had space permitted the parallel could have been drawn very closely, and

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----, Contempt of, 504.

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LXXXVII.--Lovers do not wish to see the faults of their mistresses until

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to fight with swords. These varied kinds of courage agree in this, that

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that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.

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to themselves and others; truly honest men are those who know them

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pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.

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and some account of the author and his times.

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LVI.--We are very fond of reading others' characters, but we do not like

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wrong side is advocated against me, from the strength of my zeal for

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2.--Self-love is the greatest of flatterers.

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The judgment the reader will be most inclined to adopt will perhaps be

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who want them can neither perceive nor understand them.

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misfortunes of our best friends which does not wholly displease us." Yet

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---------- defined, 285.

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323.--Our wisdom is no less at the mercy of Fortune than our goods.

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full extent of its capacities.

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------------"Pol, me occidistis, amici, Non servastis," ait, "cui sic

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keeping the same harmony that different voices and different instruments

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had come. They were bitterly disappointed. Mazarin relied on hope

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subject, and when we try to turn the conversation upon subjects that we

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errors, its ignorance, its silly mistakes; thence it is led to believe

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V.--Everybody finds that to abuse in another which he finds worthy of

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trying to seem what we are not.

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that we make bad listeners when we want to speak.

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we adopt to hide them.

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have known all that is fine and grand in the lofty aspirations of love,

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landlords with whom we successively lodge, and if we travelled the road

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[Honour has its supreme laws, to which education is bound to

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LXI.--The sincerity which lovers and mistresses ask that both should

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do not fall in their cognizance; if they complain, we should endure

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Martin. The reader will hereby see that the age in which the writer

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330.--We pardon in the degree that we love.

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we do not wish to trouble ourselves in examining the crime.

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lessen them by the merit of confessing them.

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235.--We are easily consoled at the misfortunes of our friends when they

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M. Aime Martin in 1827 published an edition of the Maxims and

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that love increases, prudence diminishes.

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