Maxims, Characters, and Reflections (Classic Reprint): Critical, Satyrical, and Moral: Critical, Satyrical, and Moral (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Explore how true pride differs from false show, and what education and character reveal about us all.

In these maxims, characters and scenes illuminate the pull between sense and genius, and how education shapes taste, manners, and virtue. It offers bite‑size reflections on pride, authenticity, and the limits of pretension, wrapped in clever, accessible satire.

• Contrast between genuine character and fashionable affectations


• Thoughts on education, upbringing, and the influence of society


• Insights into truth, pride, and the delicate balance of humility and self-respect


• Observations on poets, scholars, and the variety of human merit and foible

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