Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
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There 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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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
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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.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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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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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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