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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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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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If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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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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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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