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A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

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It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

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Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

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By Fortune's adverse buffets overborneTo solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn,And not in utter loneliness to live,Myself at last did to the Devil give!

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What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

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It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy.