It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.

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He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

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If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

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He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

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Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

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He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

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You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

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Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

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Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

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You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

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