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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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Conquer Grace Grant Refusal Safety Yourself
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Admire Difficult Fine Writing
He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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Exercise Humility Low Place True
Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.
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Cruelty Generosity Greatness Humility Lover
Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Enemy Harm Yourself
Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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Bright Intellectual Shine Sun
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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Case Empty Follow Misfortune Pain Shadow Substance
We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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Anticipate Bliss Drink Enchant Love
That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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Appreciate Beautiful Intimate Substance True
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Chain Discover Mindset
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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Enough Satisfaction True
Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Drink Temperature
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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Goodness Greatness Life Man
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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Creature Excellence Feeling Language Learning School
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.
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Accomplishment Easy Hide Hypocrisy Learning Pretend
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Oppression Prosperity Submit

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