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388.--If vanity does not overthrow all virtues, at least she makes them

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440.--The cause why the majority of women are so little given to

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humility." --Southey, Devil's Walk, Stanza 8.

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260.--Civility is but a desire to receive civility, and to be esteemed

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say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage

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happy, than when we are ill-treated by her.

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resolutions. In fact to give a true notion of this passion we must add

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245.--There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability.

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*Some crimes may be excused by their brilliancy, such as

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there are persons who please even with their faults.

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wonder it should be so ill received, something there was which strangely

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482.--The mind attaches itself by idleness and habit to whatever is easy

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enable us to prove our tenderness for them.

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253, 380, 388, 442, 445, 489, XXIX.

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often gets the praise.

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power to re-establish our character.

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we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.

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Bacon, has, by his other works, so surpassed his maxims, that their fame

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Nature, and others which when acquired are never perfect. For example,

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Corday--further than this the maxim is satire.

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[Somewhat similar to Goldsmith's sage-- "Who quits {a} world where

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CIII.--When we love too much it is difficult to discover when we have

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and we should use the same style in which we should naturally speak of

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XXIII.--The most wise may be so in indifferent and ordinary matters, but

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properly, the fury of pride. (1665, No. 159.)

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There are others which, though imperfect, yet are produced with such

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41.--Those who apply themselves too closely to little things often

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of the evil, end leaves him free to reflect on other things.

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88.--Self love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our

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melancholy book," though he goes on to say "it is usually so in youth

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----, Cure for, 417, 459.

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----, Establishment in, 56.

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done in the opinion of others.

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an edition by Gabriel Brotier.

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There he found the Queen engaged in trying to maintain her position by

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210.--In growing old we become more foolish--and more wise.

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Prudence, 65, LXXXVIII, R.I.

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it arises from so many other causes, fills my imagination in such a way,

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expressions hard or forced, and never let the words be grander than the

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to set straight a cross-grained spirit.

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the effects which we attribute to judgment.

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they are enormous, and looks at her good qualities in so disadvantageous

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philosophers. They thought it but right to go with a good grace when

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submit. I do not wish from what I have said to depreciate confidence,

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necessary for it that their interests should not be different.

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their place, or at least such as will interest them. We should talk of

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have promised not to tell. It is not in our power to tell them what has

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citizens give themselves the airs of duchesses.

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relations. The sixteenth Seigneur Francais was chamberlain to Charles

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457.--We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by

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