If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast.
William Benton Clulow
If solitude deprives of the ...
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Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.
William Benton Clulow
Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles.
William Benton Clulow
