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The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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Different Face Happiness Mindset Road
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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Common Privacy Stock Theory
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Female Forgiveness Liberty
Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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Logic Science Togetherness Tools Work
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Game People War Win
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Astonishment Improvement Life People
The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Amount Jealous Rich
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Inspirational Run Woman Yourself
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Grave Precious Reputation Weakness Weapon Whisper
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Oppression Prosperity Submit
Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Books Flower Injury Observation Steal
As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Affect Appearance Assume Best Woman
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
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Act Goodness Growth Point
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
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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Atheist Communication Destruction Light Mistake System Warmth Yourself Zeal

The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

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