The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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