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

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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

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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

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.
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Privacy Station
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Equity Join
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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Jealous
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Fine
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Bundle Contradiction Paradox
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.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

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

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

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

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

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
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
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Grave Whisper
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Excess Prudent
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.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

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
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Hurry Mark Mindset Oneself
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Deliberate Grace
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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