Receive them with great civility, but with great incredulity . . . . . Recommend it(pleasure) to you, like an Epicurean . . . . . . . . . . . Respectful without meanness, easy without too much familiarity . . . . Scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow . . . . . . . . . Sentiment-mongers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . State your difficulties, whenever you have any . . . . . . . . . . . . Studied and elaborate dress of the ugliest women in the world. . . . . Sure guide is, he who has often gone the road which you want to . . . Talk of natural affection is talking nonsense. . . . . . . . . . . . . TELL ME WHO YOU LIVE WITH AND I WILL TELL YOU WHO YOU ARE. . . . . . . Thing so precious as time, and so irrecoverable when lost. . . . . . . True use and value of time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unguarded frankness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. . . . . . . . . . Wrapped up and absorbed in their abstruse speculations . . . . . . . . Young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind . . . . .
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