Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONPure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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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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