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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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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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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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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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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.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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