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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONDiscretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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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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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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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.
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There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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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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That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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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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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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