Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
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Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.
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Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.
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Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
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Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.
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Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
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Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.
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A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest.
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There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.
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In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.
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