When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONBooks, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.
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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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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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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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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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