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different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light of the mind.

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144.--We do not like to praise, and we never praise without a

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resembles hatred than friendship.

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tastes than of our opinions.

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Magnanimity, 248, LIII.

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287.--Fertility of mind does not furnish us with so many resources on

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cannot assure to us the most trifling event.

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333.--Women cannot be completely severe unless they hate.

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465.--Innocence is most fortunate if it finds the same protection as

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societies, a society which numbered among its members La Fontaine,

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the person who listens to us, for if there is much art in speaking to

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humility." Southey, Devil's Walk.]

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242.--We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.

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["You have accomplished a great stroke in diplomacy when you have made

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have, ne'er end with only one}." {--Lord Byron, }Don Juan, {Canto} iii.,

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["Oh Love! no habitant of earth thou art-- An unseen seraph, we believe

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found in another form as No. 179 of the maxims of the first edition,

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opinion agrees with mine."--Swift, Thoughts On Various Subjects.]

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which has not survived, "The Garland," by Mr. Broadhurst. "In some cases

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and shows every object in an absurd light; wit combines more or less

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and furnishes them with an infinite number of subjects on which to talk

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The intercourse of gentlemen cannot subsist without a certain kind of

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to show what they have said, and what they have left unsaid. We should

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derived from their unaided understanding, without the hope of a future

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fault in me is that I have sometimes a spirit of delicacy far too

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It is dangerous to seek to be always the leader of the conversation, and

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I am content not to be considered better-looking than I am, nor of a

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so necessary to man. It is in society the link between acquaintance and

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258.--Good taste arises more from judgment than wit.

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him, no one in Europe had attained since the revival of letters."

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Woman, 131, 204, 205, 220, 241, 277, 332, 333, 334,

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Reflections which has ever since been the standard text of Rochefoucauld

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Defects, 31, 90, 493, LXXII. SEE Faults.

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CXVII.--We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

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246.--What seems generosity is often disguised ambition, that despises

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himself without dependence, and at the same time amuse himself. He

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because they think themselves more clever than we are.

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be true, it would come to them direct, and not from others, they would

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wishes to find in vice a motive for all our actions, but this does not

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guiding an ill-trained mind.

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"It has been..." when speaking of ambition.}

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318.--We may find means to cure a fool of his folly, but there are none

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the two maxims only appeared in the fourth of the first five editions

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191.--We may say vices wait on us in the course of our life as the

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too complicated and too confused to be stated here. The memoirs of

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just as his own interest is near to him or distant from him. (Letter To

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Approbation, 51, 280.

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218.--Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

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giving faithful pictures of the intrigues and the scandals of the court

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however, incapable of avenging myself if I have been offended, or if my

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