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Sincerity is the most compendious wisdom.

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Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.
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Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say.
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There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.
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If you will please people, you must please them in their own way.
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A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.
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You must be respectable, if you will be respected.
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Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained.
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Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.
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Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love these are their universal characteristics.
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The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.
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One should always think of what one is about when one is learning, one should not think of play and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.
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An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.
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Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.
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Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell in it if you canbut never pretend to give the tone. A free conversation will no more bear a dictator than a free government will.
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A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit but if ungraceful, they decide against him.
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Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.
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No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.
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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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