The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONLadies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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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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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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