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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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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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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Brief Ourselves Wisdom
It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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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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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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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.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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