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There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.
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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please - that is, as they please or displease us.
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There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
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There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.
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There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.
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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.
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There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.
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There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
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