He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
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The public seldom forgive twice.
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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
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Thinkers are scarce as gold but he whose thoughts embrace All his subject, pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.
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Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
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