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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

William Hazlitt

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The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.
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Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.
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