We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit. >>
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Life is the art of being well deceived. >>
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful. >>
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it g >>
O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is >>
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.