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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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Bear Beggar Refusal
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Age Old Youth
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Female Forgiveness Liberty
Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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Flattery Form High Imitation
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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Course Greatness Intelligence Man Mindset Vulgar
Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Better Knowledge
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Injurious Reply Silence Weakness
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.
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Each Other Family Ignorance Nation Pride
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Dangerous Deal Fools
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Anand Thakur
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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Beginning End Magnificiant Mathematics Study
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
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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Fashion Happiness Love Pride Starve
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
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Goal Hollow Motive Place Show True
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Deep Fools Silence Wisdom
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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Energy Enough Place Plant Virtue

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