Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.Richard Steele
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The insupportable labour of doing nothing.
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I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.
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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
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I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can close our eyes.
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