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Page 101 - So as there is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer ; for there is no such flatterer as is a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend.
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Page 119 - When honour is a support to virtuous principles, and runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it cannot be too much cherished and encouraged : but when the dictates of honour are contrary to those of religion and equity, they are the greatest depravations of human nature, by giving wrong...
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Page 120 - God and our country, it cannot be too much cherished and encouraged: but when the dictates of honour are contrary to those of religion and equity, they are the greatest depravations of human nature, by giving wrong ambitions and false ideas of what is good and laudable ; and should therefore be exploded by all governments, and driven out as the bane and plague of human society.
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| Title | Recollections of a Chaperon, Volume 2 Recollections of a Chaperon, Arabella Jane Sullivan |
| Author | Arabella Jane Sullivan |
| Editor | Lady Barbarina Dacre |
| Publisher | J. & J. Harper, 1833 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 28 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 320 pages |
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