The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONIt may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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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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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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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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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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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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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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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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There are male as well as female gossips.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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