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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.