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Friendship is too pure a pleasure for a mind cankered with ambition, or the. lust of power and grandeur.

Guilt is a poor, helpless, dependent being. Without the alliance of able, diligent, and let me add, fortunate fraud, it is inevitably undone. If the guilty culprit be obstinately silent, it forms a deadly presumption against him ; if be speaks, talking tends only to his discovery, and his very defence often furnishes the materials for hi* conviction.

Intemperance is a great decayer of beauty.

Oppression is more easily borne than insult.

Persuasion is often directed not at others, but at ourselves — by persuading others, we convince ourselves.

Superstition is certainly not the characteristic of this age. Yet some men are bigoted in politics who are infidels in religion. Ridiculous credulity 1.