Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.
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Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.Philip Stanhope
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Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
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Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
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Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.
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A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest.
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