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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.

Charles Caleb Colton

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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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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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There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
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Accompany Establishment Oneself Reputation Secure Way
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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