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To know how to obey is as honorable as to rule.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Easy is the intercourse of equals with equals.

We find something of the favor sought in a graceful refusal.

A prompt denial is something toward the favor requested.

Hunger goes with stinted supplies, disgust attends on abundance.

By tolerating many abuses, we encourage the assaults of such as we cannot tolerate.

Patience and fortitude create their own happiness.

Patience in adversity is by no means felicity.

Patience reveals the soul's hidden riches.

Any land is your country where you can live happy.

There are few to appreciative what God gives to all.

A few men's depravity is all men's calamity.

There are few unwilling to sin, none without knowledge thereof.

It is right to wish your friend's fault concea