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"A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation."
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"The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language."
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"Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt."
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"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant."
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"For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on."
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"The impatient man is his own enemy, he slams the door on his own progress."
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"We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say."
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"I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't."
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"Some people exert more energy on less important things, some people exert less energy on less important things."
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"Men are like children, in that, if you spoil them, they become naughty. Therefore it is well not to be too indulgent or charitable with anyone. You may take it as a general rule that you will not lose a friend by refusing him a loan, but that you are very likely to do so by granting it; and, for similar reasons, you will not readily alienate people by being somewhat proud and careless in your behavior; but if you are very kind and complaisant towards them, you will often make them arrogant and intolerable, and so a breach will ensue."
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"You have to first position yourself with the right level of mannerism, before others could see a reason to respect you."
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"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
Prose
"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit."
Trees
"People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything."
Quality
"It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh."
People
"The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them."
Men
"Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired."
Work
"We die only once, and for such a long time."
Time
"Love is often the fruit of marriage."
Love
"If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless."
Heart
"I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper."
Being
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