“Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.”
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We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.