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Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

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Take short views, hope for the best and trust in God.
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Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.
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I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
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I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.
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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
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Avoid shame, but do not seek glory nothing so expensive as glory.
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Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
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The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.
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Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
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