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Suggest Revision: Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparis
  
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Suggest Revision: Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty
  
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Suggest Revision: That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem
  
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Suggest Revision: A vow is a snare for sin
  
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Suggest Revision: He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground
  
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Suggest Revision: You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword
  
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Suggest Revision: Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
  
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Suggest Revision: The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.
  
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Suggest Revision: It is peculiarly the business of a monitor to keep his own reputation untainted, lest those who can once charge him with partiality, should indulge themselves afterwards in disbelieving him at pleasure
  
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Suggest Revision: Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood
  
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