We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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A shrewd man has to arrange his interests in order of importance and deal with them one by one but often our greed upsets this order and makes us run after so many things at once that through over-anxiety to obtain the trivial, we miss the most important.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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