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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Charles Caleb Colton

An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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Honesty Man Side Surround
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Choice Evil Human Leave
Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Better Knowledge
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
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Accompany Establishment Oneself Reputation Secure Way
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Friendship Health Known Lost Sound True
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Adversity Himself Prosperity
God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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God Greatness Himself
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Age Old Youth
The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Faith Fraud Greedy Imposter Prudent Swallow
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
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Cheerful Genius Gravity Harm Mistake Science
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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Beginning Best End Himself Possible
There are male as well as female gossips.
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Female Gossip Male
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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Coward Love Power
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
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Imagination Known Pain Pleasure Power

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