We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.
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Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary they believe what they are paid for --they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left. . .William Hazlitt
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
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We affect to laugh at the folly of those who put faith in nostrums, but are willing to try ourselves whether there is any truth in them.
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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
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