“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.”
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We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.