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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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Injurious Reply Silence Weakness
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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Death Evidence Fools
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Fear Human Nature Pretend
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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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
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
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Book Friendship Goodness
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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Earn Enjoyment Liberty People Raise
The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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Advantage Ourselves Present Time
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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God Goodness Prayer Prevent Work
Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
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Allow Error Flirt Freedom Ourselves Perfection
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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Grand Misery Passion Success
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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Body Knowledge Man Soul Study
Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Drink Temperature
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Age Old Youth
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

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