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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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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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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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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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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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