Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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