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Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.
[Appreciation]

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.
[Egotism]

When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport, than she makes me?

When I religiously confess myself to myself, I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
[Vice]

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

You'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
[Cats]


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