Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
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If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
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