Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.
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Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he Full well the busy whisper circling round Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too.
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