Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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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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The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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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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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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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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