1. “Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.”
2. “I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.”
3. “We are often duped by diffidence as by confidence.”
4. “A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.”
5. “A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.”
6. “Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.”
7. “Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.”
8. “Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.”
9. “Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.”
10. “Women’s beauty, like men’s wit, is generally fatal to the owners”
11. “Character must be kept bright as well as clean.”
12. “Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though thy will secure them when gained.”
13. “Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.”
14. “Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.”
15. “Judgement is not upon all occasions required, but the discretion always is.”
16. “A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of the weak and cunning ones.”
17. “The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.”
18. “The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.”
19. “Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.”
20. “Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.”
21. “Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.”
22. “An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.”
23. “Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.”
24. “A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.”
25. “Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.”
26. “Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.”
27. “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
28. “Seek always for the best words and the happiest expression you can find.”
29. “A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.”
30. “People hate those who make them fell their own inferiority.”
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