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Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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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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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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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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It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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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.
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Complete Integrity Oneself
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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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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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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Hate Man Ourselves Sincere Success

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