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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."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."
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"In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part."

"Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty."

"Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way."

"Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company."
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