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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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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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Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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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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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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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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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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