I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

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Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

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Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

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