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Nothing more engages the affections of men , than a handsome address , and
graceful conversation . Complaisance renders a superior amiable , an equal
agreeable , and an inferior acceptable . Excess of ceremony shews want of
breeding .
Nothing more engages the affections of men , than a handsome address , and
graceful conversation . Complaisance renders a superior amiable , an equal
agreeable , and an inferior acceptable . Excess of ceremony shews want of
breeding .
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A cobler , a gardener , or any man who happened to raise himself in the army ,
and could gain their affections , was made emperor of the world : was not every
succeeding enperor raised to the throne , or tumbled headlong into the dust ...
A cobler , a gardener , or any man who happened to raise himself in the army ,
and could gain their affections , was made emperor of the world : was not every
succeeding enperor raised to the throne , or tumbled headlong into the dust ...
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And can any thing , believe you , conduce so probably to the well - being of a
rational , social animal , as the right exercise of that reason , and of those social
affections ! Nothing . And what is the same exercise , but the highest Rectitude of
...
And can any thing , believe you , conduce so probably to the well - being of a
rational , social animal , as the right exercise of that reason , and of those social
affections ! Nothing . And what is the same exercise , but the highest Rectitude of
...
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And , princes all , believe me , I beseech you ; My father is gone wild into his
grave ; For in his tomb lie my affections ; . And with his spirit sadly I survive , To
mock the expectations of the world ; To frustrate prophecies , and to raze out
Rotten ...
And , princes all , believe me , I beseech you ; My father is gone wild into his
grave ; For in his tomb lie my affections ; . And with his spirit sadly I survive , To
mock the expectations of the world ; To frustrate prophecies , and to raze out
Rotten ...
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... yet I cannot help entertaining a high opinion of his guest too ; there must be
something more than common in him , that in so short a time he should win so
much upon the affections of his host : -- And of his whole family , added the
corporal ...
... yet I cannot help entertaining a high opinion of his guest too ; there must be
something more than common in him , that in so short a time he should win so
much upon the affections of his host : -- And of his whole family , added the
corporal ...
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