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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.
We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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