Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.

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Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

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Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.

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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.

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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

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You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

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