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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Deep Fools Silence Wisdom
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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Execution Fine Hide Source
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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Affirmation Fake Knowledge Negative
He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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Claw Far Feelings Himself Quite Secure
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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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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