It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONFame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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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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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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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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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.
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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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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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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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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
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