A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
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It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
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Pride more often than ignorance makes us refuse to accept new ideas finding the first places taken in the intellectual parade, we refuse to take the last.
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We often boast that we are never bored, but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.
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No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
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When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
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