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.
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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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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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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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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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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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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God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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