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A lively blockhead in company

A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.
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Vulgar prejudices are those which

Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.
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Society is a more level

Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. The heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture of society is that it is commonplace. Our fancied superiority to others is in some one thing which we think most of because we excel in it, or have paid most attention to it; whilst we overlook their superiority to us in something else which they set equal and exclusive store by.
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The most silent people are

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves. They fancy themselves superior to every one else, and, not being sure of making good their secret pretensions, decline entering the lists altogether. Thus they ?lay the flattering unction to their souls? that they could have said better things than others, or that the conversation was beneath them.
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Women never reason and therefore

Women never reason and therefore they are, comparatively, seldom wrong. They judge instinctively of what falls under their immediate observation or experience, and do not trouble themselves about remote or doubtful consequences. If they make no profound discoveries, they do not involve themselves in gross absurdities. It is only by the help of reason and logical inference, according to Hobbes, that ?man becomes excellently wise or excellently foolish.?
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Simplicity of character is the

Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.
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We have more faith in

We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.
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A man who does not

A man who does not endeavour to
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Truth from the mouth of

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.
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There are many who talk

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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