Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
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Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
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If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.
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A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
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Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
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