People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.
People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will. . .
We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people. Use may in part reconcile us to our own tediousness, but we do not adopt that of others on the same paternal principle. We may be willing to sell a story twice, never to hear one more than once.
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
Ignorance alone makes monsters or bug-bears our actual acquaintances are all very common-place people.
If we use no ceremony toward others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.
Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
There are two classes of people that I have observed who are not so distinct as might be imagined -- those who cannot keep their own money in their hands, and those who cannot keep their hands from other people's.
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking
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