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Men have made a virtue of moderation to limit the ambition of the great and to console people of mediocrity for their want of fortune and of merit.
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
Wealth is conspicuous but poverty hides.
The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures nor console us for its pains.
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Men have made a virtue of moderation to limit the ambition of the great and to console people of mediocrity for their want of fortune and of merit.
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
Wealth is conspicuous but poverty hides.
The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures nor console us for its pains.