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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?

Charles Caleb Colton

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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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Goodness Man Motive Opinion Ourselves Strong Virtue
A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Attainment Human Power Responsibility
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Admire Difficult Fine Writing
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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Care Command Influence Reading
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Adversity Himself Prosperity
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Flattery Imitation One Liner Sincere
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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Anand Thakur
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Female Forgiveness Liberty
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
A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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Beginning Decision Determination Himself Professional
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Civil Lose Ourselves War
That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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Execution Fine Hide Source
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
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Pride Right Rule Satisfaction Wrong
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Injurious Reply Silence Weakness

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