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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.

Charles Caleb Colton

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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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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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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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