Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation between a man of sense and his books.
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In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.Lord Chesterfield
It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.
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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
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Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
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I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
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