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Rh How many people are like whitened epulchres, and careful only about appearances! yet if we are too anxious to gain the approbation of the world, we mut often forfeit our own.

How bewitching is that humble oftnes of manners which humility gives birth to, and how faint are the imitations of affectation! That gentlenes of behaviour, which makes us courteous to all, and that benevolence, which makes us loth to offend any, and tudious to pleae every creature, is ometimes copied by the polite; but how aukward is the copy! The warmet profeions of regard are