As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
Jean De La Bruyere
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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
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Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
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