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As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk.
There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.
Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.
There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
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Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
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