Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.William Hazlitt
Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.
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The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice
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There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
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Words are the only things that last forever.
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