Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
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He who endeavors to please must appear to be pleased.
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BOSWELL. I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it . . . JOHNSON. That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.
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