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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
The mind cannot long play the heart's role.
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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