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Charles Caleb Colton

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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Female Improvement Intellectual Male Pledge
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Happiness Man Misery Pleasure
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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Case Empty Follow Misfortune Pain Shadow Substance
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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Destroy Enjoyment Improvement Pleasure Sun Woman
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Book Friendship Instruction Return True
Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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Different Face Happiness Mindset Road
The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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Attachment Authority Basic Establishment Family Government Person Value
There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
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Deserve Fear Gratitude Kind Pay Powerful Praise
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
The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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Difference Health Man Money Poor Rich
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Civil Lose Ourselves War
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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Away Man Production Throw Time
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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Effort Greatness Happiness Moments Paint Thinking
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Integrity Man Ourselves Price Purchase Virtue

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