It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
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To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.
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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
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How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions.
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Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
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