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"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."

"The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths."
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"Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood."

"What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!"

"People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy."

"Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together."

"So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil."

"Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!"
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