Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse–a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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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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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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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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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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