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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMake no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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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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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
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Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
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Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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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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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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