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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.

Charles Caleb Colton

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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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Difference Fools Greatness Happiness Wisdom
If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
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Discharge Head Influence Lose
He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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Exercise Humility Low Place True
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Injurious Reply Silence Weakness
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Flattery Imitation One Liner Sincere
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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Care Command Influence Reading
He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
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Bad Better Goodness Himself Stand Vice Virtue Worst
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Admire Difficult Fine Writing
He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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Alone Book Himself Man Study
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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Inspirational Run Woman Yourself
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Afford Man Poor
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Adversity Himself Prosperity
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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Greatness Majority Rare Reading Thinking Writing

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