Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Bagwalas

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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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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Anand Thakur
We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.

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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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Anand Thakur
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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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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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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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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Rough Saint
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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Dangerous
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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Oneself
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Severe
We ask advice but we mean approbation.

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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Anand Thakur
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Anand Thakur
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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Bound Length
The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

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The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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Execution Fine Source
Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

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Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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Destruction System Warmth Zeal

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