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good people surprised
Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
people common busy
Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.
appreciation people littles
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
thinking people fool
The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
humble people enough
Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.
ideas circles people
Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
lazy-people people lazy
Lazy people always intend to start doing something.
character people want
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
people degrade servitude
Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.
people use speech
Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
lazy-people laziness anxious
Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
expressed french-novelist proof weak
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.
strong feelings opinion
Conscience, the organ of feeling which dominates us and of the opinions which rule us, is presumptuous in the strong, timid in the weak and unfortunate, uneasy in the undecided.
despair lasts weakness
Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.