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So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

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In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mort...more

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If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinio...more

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1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation...more