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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Civil Lose Ourselves War
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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Afraid Coward Death Prevent Suicide Time
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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Adversity Photograph Reverse Success World
Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Drink Temperature
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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Greatness Majority Rare Reading Thinking Writing
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Afford Man Poor
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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Beginning Decision Determination Himself Professional
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Anand Thakur
It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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Compose Goodness Observation Writing
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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Anand Thakur
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Anand Thakur
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Excess Prudent
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Game People War Win
Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Insult Mindset Vulgar
Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Adult Convinience Finding Purity Truth
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Accompany Establishment Oneself Reputation Secure Way

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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