A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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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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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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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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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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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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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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