Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
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One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.William Hazlitt
No really great man ever thought himself so.
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Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism And when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.
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Amsterdam did not answer our expectations it is a kind of paltry, rubbishy Venice.
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That which any one has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.
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Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe so that he is torn in pieces between the two. . .
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