DECLINE AND FALL,
chap. xv.]
451.--No fools so wearisome as those who have some
wit.
452.--No one believes that in every respect he is
behind the man he considers the ablest in the world.
453.--In great matters we should not try so much
to create opportunities as to utilise those that offer
themselves.
[Yet Lord Bacon says "A wise man will make more
opportunities than he finds."--Essays, {(1625),
"Of Ceremonies and Respects"}]
454.--There are few occasions when we should make
a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that
no ill was said of us.
455.--However disposed the world may be to judge
wrongly, it far oftener favours false merit than does
justice to true.
456.--Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one
with discretion.
457.--We should gain more by letting the world see
what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.
458.--Our enemies come nearer the truth in the
opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of
ourselves.
459.--There are many remedies to cure love, yet
none are infallible.
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