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"Abuse, if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it."
"All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end."
"Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor."
"To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it."
"Greater things are believed of those who are absent."
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