If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe 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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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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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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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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Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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