The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
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Wisdom to be sure is the great conqueror of Fortune, giving precepts in its sanctified pages but we also judge those happy who have learned in the school of life how to bear its ills and not buck against the yoke
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