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We May Seem Great In An Employment Below Our Worth, But We Very Often Look Little In One That Is Too Big For Us.

What Often Prevents Our Abandoning Ourselves To A Single Vice Is, Our Having More Than One.

We Are Not Fond Of Praising, And Never Praise Any One Except From Interested Motives. Praise Is A Clever, Concealed, And Delicate Flattery, Which Gratifies In Different Ways The Giver And The Receiver. The One Takes It As A Recompense Of His Merit, And The Other Bestows It To Display His Equity And Discernment.

We Confess To Little Faults Only To Persuade Ourselves We Have No Great Ones.

Ideas Often Flash Across Our Minds More Complete Than We Could Make Them After Much Labor.