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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Choice Evil Human Leave
Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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Carry Compare Talk Weight
An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
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Customer Fight Man Reason
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 Science Togetherness Tools Work
The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
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Discharge Head Influence Lose
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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Anand Thakur
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Brief Ourselves Wisdom
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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Away Man Production Throw Time
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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Better Dangerous Wait
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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Adjust Honesty Reality Result Strategy
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Excess Prudent
I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
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Books Flower Injury Observation Steal
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
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
Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Flattery Imitation One Liner Sincere
A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur

If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.

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