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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small-pox. - [Affectation] He is not always at ease who laughs. [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre bien aise que de rire.] - [Laughter] History tells us of illustrious villains, but there never was an illustrious miser. - [Misers] Let pleasure be ever so innocent, the excess is always criminal. - [Excess] Liberality is the best way to gain affection; for we are assured of their friendship to whom we are obliged. - [Liberality] Politeness is a mixture of discretion, civility, complaisance and circumspection spread over all we do and say. - [Politeness] Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue. We have seen a thousand people esteemed, either for the merit they had not yet attained or for that they no longer possessed. - [Reputation] Some men will believe nothing but what they can comprehend; and there are but few things that such are able to comprehend. - [Incredulity] The censure of those that are opposed to us is the nicest commendation that can be given us. - [Censure] There is a heroic innocence, as well as a heroic courage. - [Innocence] Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few religious persons whose devotion is of long continuance. - [Extremes] We rarely meet with persons that have true judgment; which, to many, renders literature a very tiresome knowledge. Good judges are as rare as good authors. - [Critics] We want fewer things to live in poverty with satisfaction, than to live magnificently with riches. - [Poverty]
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