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Fame 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

Charles Caleb Colton

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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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Circumstance Commerce Flourish Shore Wave
The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
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Art Fools Hear Moments Publish Reading Sink Talk Value
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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Fools Himself Known Man Mistake World
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Book Friendship Goodness
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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Choice Known Willing Yourself
A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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Beginning Decision Determination Himself Professional
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Hurry Mark Mindset Oneself Strong Weakness
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Excess Prudent
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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Beginning End Magnificiant Mathematics Study
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Female Forgiveness Liberty
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Afford Man Poor
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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Common Privacy Stock Theory
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
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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Road Rough Saint
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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Goodness Greatness Life Man

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