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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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Greatness Majority Rare Reading Thinking Writing
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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God Goodness Prayer Prevent Work
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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Accomplishment Easy Hide Hypocrisy Learning Pretend
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.
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Blood Ourselves Remedy Revenge
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Character Measurement True Watch
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
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Enjoyment Grace Greatness Himself Intimacy Rank
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Astonishment Improvement Life People
Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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Different Face Happiness Mindset Road
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Agreement Body Death Man Mindset Togetherness Wife
Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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Book Life Logic Mess Midst Time
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
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Defect Enemy Learning Ourselves Side Success Surround World
Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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Bear Beggar Refusal
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Game People War Win
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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Cheerful Life Old Sun Winter
Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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Food Herself Honor Stability

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