He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONImitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
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He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse–a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
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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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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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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.
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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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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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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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As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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