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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.

Charles Caleb Colton

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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Doubt Faith
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Act Decision Deliberate Firm Grace
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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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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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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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
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 often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Fear Human Nature Pretend
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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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.
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Beneath Herself Ignorance Lying Pride Shame
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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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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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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Energy Enough Place Plant Virtue
Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

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