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Mankind are more disposed to suffer than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
If you indulge yourself in the practise of any foible or vice in youth, it will gain strength with your years and become your conquerer.
The dessolated Lover and disappointed Connections, are compelled by their Grief to reflect on the vanity of human Wishes and Expectations
The great distance between us makes me anxious. I fear you will have too much upon your hands. The multiplicity of cares which surround you fill me with concern.
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.
Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence