Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONBe real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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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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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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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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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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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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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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