"To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind."

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"Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn."

"Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime."

"To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind."

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"A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled."

"Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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