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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
We must be doing something to be happy.
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
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