When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves with the idea that we have left them.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
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Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
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