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Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.

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If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
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Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.
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If a man, notoriously and designedly, insults and affronts you, knock him down but if he only injures you, your best revenge is to be extremely civil to him in your outward behaviour, though at the same time you counterwork him, and return him the compliment, perhaps with interest.
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Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.
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Dispatch is the soul of business.
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Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.
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Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.
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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
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Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe.
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The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
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The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be because he shows you, by his manner, that he thinks it mere condescension in him and that his goodness alone bestows upon you what you have no pretense to claim.
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Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners.
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