The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.
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They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. . . .William Hazlitt
The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense
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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
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The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
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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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I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.
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