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Flattery Is False Money, Which Would Not Be Current Were It Not For Our Vanity.

Virtue Would Not Make Such Advances If There Were Not A Little Vanity To Keep It Company.

We Have No Patience With Other People's Vanity Because It Is Offensive To Our Own.

Though Most Of The Friendships Of The World Ill Deserve The Name Of Friendships; Yet A Man May Make Use Of Them On Occasion, As Of A Traffic Whose Returns Are Uncertain, And In Which 'tis Usual To Be Cheated.

Jealousy Lives Upon Doubts. It Becomes Madness Or Ceases Entirely As Soon As We Pass From Doubt To Certainty.