A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
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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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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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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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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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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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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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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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That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.
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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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