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| Pray consider what a figure a man would make in the republic of letters. |
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| Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. |
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| Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. |
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| Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. |
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| Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. |
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| Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. |
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| Sir Roger told them, with the air of a man who would not give his judgement rashly, that much might be said on both sides. |
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| Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. |
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| Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. |
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| Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. |
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| That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? |
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| The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnamity of the rich. |
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| The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding |
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| The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment. |
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| The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. |
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| The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure; ours has severest virtue for its basis, and such a friendship ends not but with life. |
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