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  1. If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense …
  2. Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
  3. Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride…
  4. Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
  5. The public seldom forgive twice.
  6. He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
  7. Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
  8. He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

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