The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.

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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?

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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.

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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

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In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.

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It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
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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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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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As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
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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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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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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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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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