"Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges."

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"You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled."

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"So much is a man worth as he esteems himself."

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"I 'll go his halves."

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"The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done."

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"We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune."

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"Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something."

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"Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude."

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"A man who is ungrateful is often less to blame than his benefactor."

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"There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer."

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"Silence is the best resolve for him who distrusts himself."

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"In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love."

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"We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire."

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"Most people judge men only by success or by fortune."

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"The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits."

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"There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability."

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"Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye."

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"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."

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"Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue."

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"Nothing is given so profusely as advice."

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"We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose."

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"The understanding is always the dupe of the heart."

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"We may give advice, but we cannot inspire the conduct."

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"We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us."

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"The love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, the fear of suffering injustice."

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"The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark."

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"Usually we praise only to be praised."

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"The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire."

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"Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side."

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"We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others."

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"Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness."

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"The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others."

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"Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it."

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"We pardon in the degree that we love."

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"Lovers are never tired of each other, though they always speak of themselves."

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"The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly."

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"Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence."

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"I know everything except myself."

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"Where are the snows of last year?"

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"Good talkers are only found in Paris."

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"'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I 've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot."

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"Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein; Christ-like is it for sin to grieve, God-like is it all sin to leave."

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"Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all."

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"I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told."

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"Old Simon the cellarer keeps a rare store Of Malmsey and Malvoisie."

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"Speak gently! 't is a little thing Dropp'd in the heart's deep well; The good, the joy, that it may bring Eternity shall tell."

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"He was a veray parfit gentil knight."

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"Nowher so besy a man as he ther n' as, And yet he semed besier than he was."

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"For him was lever han at his beddes hed A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre."

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"For iii may keep a counsel if twain be away."

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