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(12 votes)   The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

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(9 votes)   The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

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(16 votes)   A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

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(12 votes)   For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

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(12 votes)   It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

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(11 votes)   A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

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(11 votes)   Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

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(11 votes)   God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

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(11 votes)   Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

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(11 votes)   The perfection of art is to conceal art.

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(10 votes)   Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

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(10 votes)   Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

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(10 votes)   In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

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(10 votes)   Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

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(10 votes)   The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

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