The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
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- So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
- It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
- No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
- Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.
- So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
- It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.