As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
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Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
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The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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