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That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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Hate Man Ourselves Sincere Success
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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Coward Love Power
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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Kill Ourselves Passion Strong Submission
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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Affect Determination Success Virtue
Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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Flattery Form High Imitation
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Flattery Imitation One Liner Sincere
He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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Claw Far Feelings Himself Quite Secure
We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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Effect Experience Guide Imagination
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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Choice Known Willing Yourself
Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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Food Happiness Pride
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 more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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Faith Fraud Greedy Imposter Prudent Swallow
Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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Food Herself Honor Stability
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Silence Word Yourself
Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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