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We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

William Hazlitt

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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every human heart than revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
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Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.
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A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.
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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
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We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.
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Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.
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The soul of dispatch is decision.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
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A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.
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Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.
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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
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A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.
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The public have neither shame or gratitude.
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We are governed by sympathy and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility
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There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.
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Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.
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