Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONAn Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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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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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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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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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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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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