Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
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Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.
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Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.
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You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.
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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
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Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.
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