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

Charles Caleb Colton

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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Better Knowledge
A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Attainment Human Power Responsibility
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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Experience Himself Hope Prodigy Young
If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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Attack Defense Enemy Friendship Goodness Violence
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Female Forgiveness Liberty
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Fond Safety Secret
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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Affect Determination Success Virtue
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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Complete Integrity Oneself
That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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Execution Fine Hide Source
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Choice Evil Human Leave
He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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Exercise Humility Low Place True
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
Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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Bear Beggar Refusal
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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Man Oneself Praise Raise Support
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Dangerous Deal Fools
Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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Different Face Happiness Mindset Road

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