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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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Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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There are male as well as female gossips.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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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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The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Drink Temperature
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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Food Herself Honor Stability
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Deep Enjoyment Health Jealous Money
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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Adversity Photograph Reverse Success World
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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Dance Grand Happiness Life Mistress Route
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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Blank Erase Errors Ignorance Writing
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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