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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
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It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
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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.
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Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both
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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
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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.
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The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
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Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
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