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It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.

Charles Caleb Colton

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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Character Measurement True Watch
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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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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Civil Lose Ourselves War
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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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.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Astonishment Improvement Life People
Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Flattery Imitation One Liner Sincere
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Crime Severe Victim
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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Road Rough Saint
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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Best Light Material Moral
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Bundle Contradiction Man Paradox
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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Imagination Known Pain Pleasure Power
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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Experience Himself Hope Prodigy Young
The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
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Discharge Head Influence Lose
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Equity God Join Law

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