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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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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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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.
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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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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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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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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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