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We are none of us infallible not even the youngest of us. ”
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. ”
We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit. ”
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man. ”
We must be doing something to be happy. ”
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. ”
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up. ”
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. ”
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. ”
No truly great person ever thought themselves so. ”