It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

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People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

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The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

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There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

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Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

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Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

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I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

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Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

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