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Now the end, I take it, is all one, to live at more leisure and at one's ease: but men do not always take the right way.
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Let us tell ambition that it is she herself who gives us a taste of solitude; for what does she so much avoid as society?
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A man should diffuse joy, but, as much as he can, smother grief.