It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONAtheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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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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It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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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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The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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