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Life At Court Does Not Satisfy A Man, But It Keeps Him From Being Satisfied With Anything Else.

False Glory Is The Rock Of Vanity; It Seduces Men To Affect Esteem By Things Which They Indeed Possess, But Which Are Frivolous, And Which For A Man To Value Himself On Would Be A Scandalous Error.

Grief At The Absence Of A Loved One Is Happiness Compared To Life With A Person One Hates.

A Party Spirit Betrays The Greatest Men To Act As Meanly As The Vulgar Herd.

Criticism Is As Often A Trade As A Science, Requiring, As It Does, More Health Than Wit, More Labour Than Capacity, More Practice Than Genius.