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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.