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“Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.”
“'Tis a hard task this, not to sacrifice manners to wealth.”
“Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.”
“No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.”
“Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.”
“Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.”
“There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.”
“Next to a sum of money down, a grievance is the best thing you can have.”
“He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so.”
“Velvet and gilding do not make a throne, nor gold and jewels a sceptre.”
“Courtesy should have kept him silent, even if neither charity nor modesty could do so.”
“There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.”
“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”
“There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.”