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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

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Flattery Imitation One Liner Sincere
Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Enemy Harm Yourself
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Better Certain Knowledge Term
Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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Greatness Life Lying Man Success
The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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Excellence Himself Privacy Station Talk
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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Dance Grand Happiness Life Mistress Route
The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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Attachment Authority Basic Establishment Family Government Person Value
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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Imagination Known Pain Pleasure Power
A man’s profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Empty Himself Man Profound Reserve Suspect
It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Each Other Family Ignorance Nation Pride
It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Deep Enjoyment Health Jealous Money
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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Adversity Photograph Reverse Success World
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Defect Enemy Learning Ourselves Side Success Surround World
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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Books Flower Injury Observation Steal

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.

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