There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

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The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

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No man is truly great, who is great only in his life-time. The test of greatness is the page of history.

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

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