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He can never have any true friends , who will be often changing them . Prosperity
gains friends , and adversity tries them . Nothing more engages the affections of
men , than a handsome address , and graceful conversation . Complaisance ...
He can never have any true friends , who will be often changing them . Prosperity
gains friends , and adversity tries them . Nothing more engages the affections of
men , than a handsome address , and graceful conversation . Complaisance ...
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You never heard the most delicious music , which is the praise of one's self ; nor
saw the most beautiful object , which is the work of one's own hands . Your
votaries pass away their youth in a dream of mistaken pleasures , while they are
...
You never heard the most delicious music , which is the praise of one's self ; nor
saw the most beautiful object , which is the work of one's own hands . Your
votaries pass away their youth in a dream of mistaken pleasures , while they are
...
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... For ever exercis'd , yet never tir'd ; Never elated , while one man's oppres'd ;
Never dejected while another's bless'd ; And where no wants , no wishes can
remain , Since but to wish more Virtue , is to gain . See the sole bliss Heav'n
could on ...
... For ever exercis'd , yet never tir'd ; Never elated , while one man's oppres'd ;
Never dejected while another's bless'd ; And where no wants , no wishes can
remain , Since but to wish more Virtue , is to gain . See the sole bliss Heav'n
could on ...
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That all was vanity , and life a dream . Let nature rest : Be busy for yourself , And
for your friend ; be busy er'n in vain , Rather than teaze her sated appetites . Who
never fasts , no banquet e'er enjoys ; 2 we thro ' + w Wo never toils or watches ...
That all was vanity , and life a dream . Let nature rest : Be busy for yourself , And
for your friend ; be busy er'n in vain , Rather than teaze her sated appetites . Who
never fasts , no banquet e'er enjoys ; 2 we thro ' + w Wo never toils or watches ...
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I shall never be able to afford you the least information upon that subject , my
Lord . Ld . Eust . Surely , I do not understand you . --You said , you had.secured
the letters -- Have you not read them ? Fram . You have a right , and none but you
, to ...
I shall never be able to afford you the least information upon that subject , my
Lord . Ld . Eust . Surely , I do not understand you . --You said , you had.secured
the letters -- Have you not read them ? Fram . You have a right , and none but you
, to ...
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