“To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.”
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There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.