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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Amount Jealous Rich
Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Cruelty Generosity Greatness Humility Lover
He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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Claw Far Feelings Himself Quite Secure
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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Goodness Greatness Life Man
It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Character Measurement True Watch
Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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Allow Discipline Fear Myself
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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Experience Himself Hope Prodigy Young
Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Dangerous Mystery Sun
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Bundle Contradiction Man Paradox
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Crime Severe Victim
The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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Excellence Himself Privacy Station Talk
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Equity God Join Law
Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Drink Temperature
An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
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Customer Fight Man Reason

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