The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

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Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.

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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

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Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

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Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

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There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

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To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

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