The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThere 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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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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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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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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