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Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.

Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.

The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.

Those who have little shall have less, and that those who have much shall take all that others have left.

We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.

We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.

The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.

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