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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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Road Rough Saint
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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Grand Misery Passion Success
Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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Bright Intellectual Shine Sun
We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Anand Thakur
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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Kill Ourselves Passion Strong Submission
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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Anand Thakur
We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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Anticipate Bliss Drink Enchant Love
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Fear Human Nature Pretend
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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Books Flower Injury Observation Steal
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Adjust Honesty Reality Result Strategy
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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Body Knowledge Man Soul Study
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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Anand Thakur
Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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Beneath Herself Ignorance Lying Pride Shame
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Excess Prudent
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Fond Safety Secret
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Oppression Prosperity Submit

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