What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.Jonathan Swift
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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
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Faith, that's as well said, as if I had said it myself.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
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