The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Few things are needed to make a wise man happy nothing can make a fool content.
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People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
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More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.
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