If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWhen you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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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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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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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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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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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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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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It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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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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A 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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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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