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“To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.”
“To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.”
“In prosperity our friends know us in adversity we know our friends.”
“Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.”
“There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.”
“The world like an accomplished hostess pays most attention to those whom it will soonest forget.”
“Churton Collins ... was certainly not the man to grow enthusiastic over every new thing that might might loom above the literary horizon. He more often confronted novelty from the peak of Ebal th...”
