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The Characteristic Of Coquettes Is Affectation Governed By Whim.

A Broken Heart Is A Distemper Which Kills Many More Than Is Generally Imagined, And Would Have A Fair Title To A Place In The Bills Of Mortality, Did It Not Differ In One Instance From All Other Diseases, Namely, That No Physicians Can Cure It.

We Endeavor To Conceal Our Vices Under The Disguise Of The Opposite Virtues.

Heroes, Notwithstanding The High Ideas Which, By The Means Of Flatterers, They May Entertain Of Themselves, Or The World May Conceive Of Them, Have Certainly More Of Mortal Than Divine About Them.

It Is Not Enough That Your Designs, Nay That Your Actions, Are Intrinsically Good, You Must Take Care They Shall Appear So.