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A man who sells his conscience for his interest, will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country, will betray his friend. - [Conscience] According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it. - [Cupid] Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved. - [Beauty] Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous. - [Fortune] It is unjust and absurd of persons advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side; the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. - [Confidence] Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. - [Property] There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice. - [Contentment] We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present. - [Present] All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy. - quoted by Henry and Lucy (vol. II) [Work] Nature knows best, and she says, roar! - Ormond (ch. V, King Corny in a Paroxysm of the Gout) [Pain] The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves. - Thoughts on Bores [Bores]
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