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When one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.

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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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To me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a little dirt at my door, may with impunity drive by it half-a-dozen calves, with their tails lopped close to their bodies and their hinder parts covered with blood.
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We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about.
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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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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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Our conjectures pass upon us for truths we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.
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In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
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In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
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Lady ---- is safely delivered of a son, to the great joy of that noble family. The expression, of a woman's having brought her husband a son, seems to be a proper and cautious one for it is never said, from whence.
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Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.
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I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing and the epithet which I should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of well-bred.
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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
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Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome.
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Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry judge them all by their merits, but not by their age
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It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.
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Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse.
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If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
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In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
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A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
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History is but a confused heap of facts.
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