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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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Destroy Enjoyment Improvement Pleasure Sun Woman
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
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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Common Privacy Stock Theory
Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
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Allow Error Flirt Freedom Ourselves Perfection
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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Away Man Production Throw Time
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Afford Man Poor
Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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Bright Intellectual Shine Sun
Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.
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Cruelty Generosity Greatness Humility Lover
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Deep Fools Silence Wisdom
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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Affect Determination Success Virtue
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
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Literature Sentence Speech Talk
Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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Happiness Leadership Route
There are male as well as female gossips.
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Female Gossip Male
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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Goodness Greatness Life Man
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Injurious Reply Silence Weakness
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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