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This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude.
[ Solitude ]
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The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
[ Charity ]
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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
[ Conversation ]
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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
[ Difficulties ]
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Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
[ Manners ]
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A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.
[ Self Esteem ]
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We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
[ Self Esteem ]
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One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
[ Humor ]
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
[ Boredom ]
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Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
[ Wealth ]
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The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
[ Hatred ]
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Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
[ Simplicity ]
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If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
[ Crime ]
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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present -- which seldom happens to us.
[ Present ]
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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
[ Praise ]
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
[ Ambition ]
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A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
[ Ambition ]
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