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It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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Kill Ourselves Passion Strong Submission
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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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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Establishment Principle Test Value
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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Admit Justice Moments Myself Reading
Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
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Break Failure Strength Success

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