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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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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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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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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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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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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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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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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
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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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