The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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