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Simplicity is oftenest an adroit pretence.

Temperance adds zest to pleasure.

The first rule for speaking well is to think well.

One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.

We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting.

The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.

Politeness costs little and yields much.

We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach us.

Would you be esteemed? live with persons that are estimable.

We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority.