When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONCheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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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.
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Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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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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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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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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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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