Let the great book of the world be your principle study.
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Real friendship is a slow grower, and never thrives unless engrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit.Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
I assisted at the birth of that most significant word 'flirtation,' which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.
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Men have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to hear justice done to them where they know they excel, yet they are most and best flattered upon those points where they wish to excel and yet are doubtful whether they do or not.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres, and infallibly prevails at last.
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A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved A coward.
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Be your character what it will, it will be known And nobody will take it upon your word.
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