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One of the amusements of

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.
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Pride is seldom delicate; it

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
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The real satisfaction which praise

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.
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It is the great privilege

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.
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The fountain of content must

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove.
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Pride is a vice which

Pride is a vice which pride itself inclines every man to find in others and overlook in himself.
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The round of a passionate

The round of a passionate man?s life is in contracting debts in his passion which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.
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Confidence is a plant of

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.
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The habit of looking on

The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
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The love of retirement has

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.
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