No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
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We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
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It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Hope and fear are inseparable.
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