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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

Charles Caleb Colton

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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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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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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Doubt Faith
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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Bright Intellectual Shine Sun
Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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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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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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