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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONButler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
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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 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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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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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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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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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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