Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Tom 1Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 |
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... observed the same odd fate has frequently attended the course of my later conduct in life . The unskilful openness , or in plain terms the indiscretion , I have always acted with from my youth , has drawn more ill - will towards me ...
... observed the same odd fate has frequently attended the course of my later conduct in life . The unskilful openness , or in plain terms the indiscretion , I have always acted with from my youth , has drawn more ill - will towards me ...
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... observed then , upon my having undesignedly provoked my schoolfriend into an enemy , is a com- mon case in society ; errors of this kind often sour the blood of acquaintance into an inconceivable aversion , where it is little suspected ...
... observed then , upon my having undesignedly provoked my schoolfriend into an enemy , is a com- mon case in society ; errors of this kind often sour the blood of acquaintance into an inconceivable aversion , where it is little suspected ...
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... observe , he that has least wit generally gives the first blow . Now as among the better sort a readiness of wit is not always a sign of intrinsic merit , so the want of that readiness is no reproach to a man of plain sense and civility ...
... observe , he that has least wit generally gives the first blow . Now as among the better sort a readiness of wit is not always a sign of intrinsic merit , so the want of that readiness is no reproach to a man of plain sense and civility ...
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... observed of this gentleman would certainly incline me to it ; for sure to get through the necessary cares of life , with a train of pleasures at our heels in vain calling after us- to give a constant preference to the business of the ...
... observed of this gentleman would certainly incline me to it ; for sure to get through the necessary cares of life , with a train of pleasures at our heels in vain calling after us- to give a constant preference to the business of the ...
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... observe only this ; that when we are conscious of the least comparative merit in ourselves , we should take as much care to conceal the value we set upon it , as if it were a real defect . To be elated or vain upon it , is showing your ...
... observe only this ; that when we are conscious of the least comparative merit in ourselves , we should take as much care to conceal the value we set upon it , as if it were a real defect . To be elated or vain upon it , is showing your ...
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