The majority of men devote the greater part of their lives to making their remaining years unhappy.
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A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.Jean Bruyere
A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.
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We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice
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The same vices that are gross and insupportable in others we do not notice in ourselves
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We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
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One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
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