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It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.

— Richard Steele

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A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.

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A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.

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Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

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