A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
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Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.Lord Chesterfield
You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down
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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
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Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.
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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
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Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.
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