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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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Flattery Form High Imitation
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Character Measurement True Watch
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Age Old Youth
The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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Difference Health Man Money Poor Rich
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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Man Oneself Praise Raise Support
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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Anand Thakur
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Mindset Science
Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.
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Cruelty Generosity Greatness Humility Lover
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
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Difference Effect Life Philosophy Religion
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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Affirmation Fake Knowledge Negative
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
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Enjoyment Grace Greatness Himself Intimacy Rank
Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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Capital Knowledge Regulation Representation Sign Word
Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
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Improvement Plagiarism Preparation Selection Skills Taste
That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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Appreciate Beautiful Intimate Substance True
I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
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Books Flower Injury Observation Steal
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Agreement Body Death Man Mindset Togetherness Wife

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

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