“ Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. ”
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“ I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends. ”
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“ I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends. ”
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“ I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends. ”
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“ Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. ”
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“ I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything. ”
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“ A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion. ”
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“ A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself. ”
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“ I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends. ”
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“ We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over. ”
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“ We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over. ”
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“ I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate. ”
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“ For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. ”
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“ He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. ”
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“ A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself. ”
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“ To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive. ”
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“ To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive. ”
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“ I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything. ”
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“ I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding. ”
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“ I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding. ”
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“ I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything. ”
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“ A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion. ”
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“ I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything. ”
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“ We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over. ”
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“ I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate. ”
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“ I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything. ”
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“ His mind resembled the vast ampitheatre, the Colisum at Rome. In the centre stood his judgement, which like a mighty gladiator, combated those apprehensions that, like the wild beasts of the Arena, were all around in cells, ready to be let out upon him… ”
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