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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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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Fashion Happiness Love Pride Starve
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
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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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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Claw Far Feelings Himself Quite Secure
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Age Old Youth
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Attainment Human Power Responsibility
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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Bad Injury Strength Weakness
Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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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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God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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God Goodness Prayer Prevent Work

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