The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
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The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this The one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.William Hazlitt
The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
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The soul of conversation is sympathy.
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An excess of modesty is in fact an excess of pride, and more hurtful to the individual, and less advantageous to society, than the grossest and most unblushing vanity.
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The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
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We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.
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