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Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away.
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Most people know no other way of judging men’s worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
A great many men’s gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.