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The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.