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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Charles Caleb Colton

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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author’s that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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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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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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