Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.
These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions and it is these people--amongst whom your life is passed--that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire--for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.
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