Quote #10

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

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  1. Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
  2. Will Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.
  3. Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.
  4. A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.
  5. When you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that …
  6. No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience:
  7. The finest woman in nature should not detain me an hour from you; but you must sometimes suffer the rivalship of the wisest men.
  8. A little in drink, but at all times yr faithful husband.

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