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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?

Charles Caleb Colton

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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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Advantage Ourselves Present Time
Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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Food Happiness Pride
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Afford Man Poor
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Book Friendship Goodness
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Himself Knowledge Reading Time Writing
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Friendship Health Known Lost Sound True
Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.
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Cruelty Generosity Greatness Humility Lover
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Pride Right Rule Satisfaction Wrong
The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Amount Jealous Rich
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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Better Certain Knowledge Term
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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Experience Himself Hope Prodigy Young
Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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Allow Discipline Fear Myself
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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Fashion Happiness Love Pride Starve
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Oppression Prosperity Submit
Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
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Improvement Plagiarism Preparation Selection Skills Taste
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Action Loud Threat Weakness

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