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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Each Other Family Ignorance Nation Pride
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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Death Evidence Fools
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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Female Improvement Intellectual Male Pledge
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Oppression Prosperity Submit
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
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
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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Fake Herself Nurse Rock Truth
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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Adversity Photograph Reverse Success World
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
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Adversity Himself Known
We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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Effect Experience Guide Imagination
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
We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Crime Severe Victim
Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Flattery Imitation One Liner Sincere
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Injurious Reply Silence Weakness

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