Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONAs the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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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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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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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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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
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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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An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
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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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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
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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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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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