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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONA coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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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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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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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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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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