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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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Bear Beggar Refusal
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Bundle Contradiction Man Paradox
Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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Food Herself Honor Stability
Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.
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Miracle Person Reason Recover
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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Greatness Life Lying Man Success
Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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Anand Thakur
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
Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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Happiness Leadership Route
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Brief Ourselves Wisdom
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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Honesty Man Side Surround
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Astonishment Improvement Life People
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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