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As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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.
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Beginning Best End Himself Possible
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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Fond Safety Secret
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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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
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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Affirmation Fake Knowledge Negative
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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Effect Experience Guide Imagination
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Silence Word Yourself
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Bundle Contradiction Man Paradox
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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Better Dangerous Wait
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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Integrity Man Ourselves Price Purchase Virtue
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Game People War Win
That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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Care Difficult Earn Fortune Inheritance
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Adversity Himself Prosperity

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