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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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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Greatness Majority Rare Reading Thinking Writing
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Pride Right Rule Satisfaction Wrong
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Female Forgiveness Liberty
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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Grand Misery Passion Success
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Agreement Body Death Man Mindset Togetherness Wife
Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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Capital Knowledge Regulation Representation Sign Word
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
Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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Different Face Happiness Mindset Road
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
That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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Execution Fine Hide Source
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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Establishment Principle Test Value
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Act Decision Deliberate Firm Grace

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