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"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."
Friendship
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
Reading
"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
Being
"There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress."
Nature
"If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it."
Heart
"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
Parenting
"Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass."
Wisdom
"Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship."
Love
"One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter."
Life
"The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them."
Death
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"Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration."
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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