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Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.

Charles Caleb Colton

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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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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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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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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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