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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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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Alone Book Himself Man Study
In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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Brave Death Road Sense Terrible
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Bundle Contradiction Man Paradox
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Agreement Body Death Man Mindset Togetherness Wife
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Friendship Health Known Lost Sound True
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
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Brief Ourselves Wisdom
The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
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Art Fools Hear Moments Publish Reading Sink Talk Value
Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
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Female Fortune Herself Impatience Lover Master Opportunity Submit
Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Drink Temperature
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Action Loud Threat Weakness
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
The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Amount Jealous Rich
Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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Food Happiness Pride
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Act Decision Deliberate Firm Grace
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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Better Dangerous Wait

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