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It Is Not Easy To Surround Life With Any Circumstances In Which Youth Will Not Be Delightful.

It Is Certain That Success Naturally Confirms In Us A Favourable Opinion Of Our Own Abilities. Scarce Any Man Is Willing To Allot To Accident, Friendship, And A Thousand Causes, Which Concur In Every Event Without Human Contrivance Or Interposition, The Part Which They May Justly Claim In His Advancement. We Rate Ourselves By Our Fortune Rather Than Our Virtues, And Exorbitant Claims Are Quickly Produced By Imaginary Merit.

This World, Where Much Is To Be Done And Little To Be Known.

Since Life Itself Is Uncertain, Nothing Which Has Life For Its Basis Can Boast Much Stability.