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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

Charles Caleb Colton

An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Honesty Man Side Surround
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Equity God Join Law
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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Bitter Dare Enemy Live Rare
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
The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Attachment Authority Basic Establishment Family Government Person Value
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Affirmation Fake Knowledge Negative
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
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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Destroy Enjoyment Improvement Pleasure Sun Woman
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Choice Evil Human Leave
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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Common Privacy Stock Theory
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Mindset Science
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Brief Ourselves Wisdom
Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Attention Fame Follow Funeral Grave Pay
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Literature Sentence Speech Talk
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Deep Fools Silence Wisdom
Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Improvement Plagiarism Preparation Selection Skills Taste

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