We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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There are two sorts of constancy in loveone arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
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