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Charles Caleb Colton

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Agreement Body Death Man Mindset Togetherness Wife
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Better Certain Knowledge Term
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
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Attack Body Mindset Privilege Wealth
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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Fake Herself Nurse Rock Truth
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Brief Ourselves Wisdom
Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
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Improvement Plagiarism Preparation Selection Skills Taste
Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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Bear Beggar Refusal
Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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Happiness Leadership Route
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.
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Current Doubt Kind Man Utility
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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Destroy Enjoyment Improvement Pleasure Sun Woman
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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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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Character Measurement True Watch
A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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Beginning Decision Determination Himself Professional
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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Difference Fools Greatness Happiness Wisdom
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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