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We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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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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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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Goodness Man Motive Opinion Ourselves Strong Virtue
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Book Friendship Goodness
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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